I would like to tell everyone a story. I have a bachelor degree in agricultural business, I work for a chemical and fertilizer application company. In my everyday work environment I encounter most of these chemicals that have been mentioned and scrutinized in the article and in some of the posts. I have no idea of the long term effects of these chemicals. I can however, speak on the immediate results of a human consuming round-up, a friend of mine mistakenly drank, yes drank, 1.5 cups of round-up. There is a long story behind it but that's for another time. In an effort to make this a short post we rushed him to the hospital and called poison control. At first we were surprised at the lax response of the emergency room and pc agent on the phone. They said, "there's no need to worry, worst case scenario he may have a clean colon as the chemical leaves his system." A second story is of a salesman who sells glyphosate, he regularly drinks a shot of it to prove its safety. To my knowledge he has had no negative results. All I'm trying to say is that plant DNA is different than the DNA of a deer or human.
That being said I hunt various areas from brown county to vinton county. In no way are the deer exactly the same but similarities do exist. I have watched deer walk past a corn feeder to munch on clover, those same deer eat the clover and moved to the soybean field. Then back to the woods for acorns and finally out of sight. On a separate occasion the deer went straight to the corn feeder and stayed for an extended period of time. All I am trying to say is that just like humans deer likely have "cravings" for different food sources depending on many variables. I'm not saying that round-up has no affect on deer numbers but I'm strongly inclined to place more blame on coyotes, habitat destruction, over-harvesting, poor management, increased traffic, more traveling (human or animal) spreading disease, and harsh weather.
That being said I hunt various areas from brown county to vinton county. In no way are the deer exactly the same but similarities do exist. I have watched deer walk past a corn feeder to munch on clover, those same deer eat the clover and moved to the soybean field. Then back to the woods for acorns and finally out of sight. On a separate occasion the deer went straight to the corn feeder and stayed for an extended period of time. All I am trying to say is that just like humans deer likely have "cravings" for different food sources depending on many variables. I'm not saying that round-up has no affect on deer numbers but I'm strongly inclined to place more blame on coyotes, habitat destruction, over-harvesting, poor management, increased traffic, more traveling (human or animal) spreading disease, and harsh weather.
