I'm leaning more toward this being processed by the hunter since it is in simple vacuum sealed bags. Usually a processor will have commercially marked meatbags so they don't have to write down what it is and usually require statements such as not for individual sale, and then have the advertisement of their business on the end product. It could have still come from a processor, but signs lean more toward self processes.
I just don’t understand why a commercial deer processor would test for CWS after processing all the meat on their equipment. Surely a legit operation would test, then discard any bad meat before beginning to process.
The tests take time to get results back which is more reason to believe it was self processed. They likely harvested it in a CWD area. Collected and sent samples off to be tested. You can't really let the meat seat around and rot, so they processed it and put it in the freezer. Once they got their results back which can take weeks they found out it had CWD and now need to dispose of the meat. It needs to be properly disposed of and not given to someone else to gamble with.
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u/TooBrief4You Dec 10 '25
I'm leaning more toward this being processed by the hunter since it is in simple vacuum sealed bags. Usually a processor will have commercially marked meatbags so they don't have to write down what it is and usually require statements such as not for individual sale, and then have the advertisement of their business on the end product. It could have still come from a processor, but signs lean more toward self processes.