Forty "shooter bucks," all possibly infected with Chronic Wasting Disease, disappeared from a game farm west of Green Bay after the Wis. DNR found CWD there and were to destroy all deer on the private game farm.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, US Fish & Wildlife Service marshals had already destroyed 76 does and fawns on the CWD-contaminated property. When sharp shooters went to a pen where 40 valuable bucks used as fodder for canned hunting were kept, they found a hole cut in the fence and none of the bucks.

The Badger State has already spent $30 million to destroy CWD-infected herds. This most recent incident will cost Wisconsin taxpayers $4,500 per deer destroyed, plus the cost of double fencing around the "farm."

Why do the taxpayers have to pay? Because in Wisconsin, captive deer farms were declared agricultural livestock, and farmers are allowed reclaim losses from the government under a number of state and federal programs.

This is the same treatment Indiana deer farmers and canned hunt operators are trying to get, right now. Do you want to underwrite the spread of CWD and support the canned hunting business to the tune of millions of dollars a year? If not, contact your legislator now.

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