Starved deer spark outrage

From the moment he stepped through the gates of the deer farm, Elliot Chubak knew exactly what had happened. He could smell it.'

'It smelled like rotten, rotten flesh,'' he said. ''It was just horrible, just sickening.''

In the middle of August, the fenced woodlot was thick with buzzing flies. Deer carcasses covered the ground. The emaciated animals looked as if they had starved to death.

Animal-rights activists say that such discoveries are becoming all too common on farms that breed wild animals such as deer, elk and bison. Raising such specialty meat became a fast-growing industry over the past decade, but one plagued with problems. Many herds were killed or quarantined after they became breeding grounds for tuberculosis and chronic wasting disease, which is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also known as mad-cow disease). Worse, activists say, many of the operations are run by inexperienced farmers who abandon their animals when they turn out to be unprofitable.

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Welcome to the Human Race!

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There are few worse crimes, in MY book, than bringing harm, suffering, or death to helpless, defenseless animals, whether its called factory farming, hunting, or trapping.

Its these kinds of crimes - yes crimes - that make say "way to go PETA" when they come up with shocking, yet unharmful, ways to bring awareness to the blind hurds of humans. (And, if you boil down what is being done in this world to keep the black, bloody oil flowing, why I have absolutely no problem with groups like ELF - as long as no one gets hurt).

The people who took the responsibility to see to these animals' well-being (until the slaughter, that is) should be put away for years. There is no excuse for this.