So if you are hunting another state and bring the meat back to Washington you have to de bone it and make sure there is no brain or anything on the skull cap correct. If everyone was worried about CWD why are you allowed to keep the meat and transport back to Washington? Do the bones and the brain material have the CWD in them and not the meat? How many people that hunt out of state actually get there deer tested? I guess I am just wondering after all that can CWD be transmitted through the meat?
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They used to think CWD was only or mainly in the spinal column and brain. Now, it seems that is not true and there are prions in the meat of infected animals. I think the policy is one of practicality, if they don't allow the meat to be imported there will be big problems with hunters.
As mentioned above, the meat is packaged up and easy to keep track of, unlike bones which most people just chuck wherever they happen to be when they get boned out, sometimes to the dump but many times just in the woods somewhere.
I get our animals tested, it's easy and free.
