S.C. Rejects MN Deer Farmers

The Supreme Court rejected a case brought forth by Minnesota deer farmers and their lobby group, against the state of Minnesota’s DNR and Board Of Animal Health.

I’d first read about the rejection in the hard copy of ‘Outdoor News’, but the online article’s behind a pay wall.

There’s a brief piece here, which isn’t behind a pay wall.

This is what the deer farmers are upset about,

The law established new requirements around fences, mandatory inspections, and the transfer of captive cervids, along with other restrictions around high-fence operations. But the biggest sticking point, in the eyes of the MDFA, was the total ban on new deer farms. The law prohibits the state from issuing new registrations for possessing whitetails in captivity, and it states that anyone raising captive whitetails without this registration can have their herd seized and destroyed. It allows for registered farmers to sell or transfer their registration just once, and only to an immediate family member.

There shouldn’t be cervid farms, that means deer, elk, moose, etc. They’re not a farm animal. And when farmed they just breed disease, and if that’s not inhumane enough, that disease spreads to the wild herds. And is there a worse disease for cervids to contract than CWD? I doubt it. And guess who pays for the absurdly ineffective containment efforts in the wild herds? Taxpayers. So don’t give me this “property rights” nonsense when those deer farms are directly affecting what belongs to all citizens, our wild life. Cervid farms must be shut down.

And there’s no “hunting” of farm raised “game”, whether it’s fur or feathered. It’s not hunting. It’s killing. There’s no sport in it. If only Col. Roosevelt were alive, he’d see to it that all these “game farms” were shut down.

Equip, train, pray and never disarm.