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Darren Palmer
Brandon Crawford
English 12 (1)
Mr. Gross
Baiting
Baiting is regulated by the Department of Natural Resources, but is not regulated
enough. Baiting Leads to the spreading of disease through the deer herd that can kill off the
whole population of the world who eats them. Virus yellows Is a disease spread through the leafs
of a sugar beet when they are eaten by a deer or other animal. Feeding corn to a deer that has not
eaten corn for a couple months can cause a symptom called rumen acidosis. Baiting will also get
the animal so used to having food handed to them that they will forget how to hunt for their food.
The argument that trophy bucks cannot be harvested without the use of bait is false.
Baiting deer can spread a virus that will kill the deer and the people that eat them. A
disease that is spread by baiting is Virus yellows which is spread by deer eating the leaves of the
top of a sugar beet that will kill the deer after a while also killing the human or animal that eats
that deer(Show DPV and Refs in Frame). Virus yellow is spread in the sugar beets leafs by little
yellow aphids that live on the bottom of a sugar beet leaf and are hard to spot(Show DPV and
Refs in Frame). There is no way of killing the disease once it starts in the plant, but if the aphids
are spotted before they plant the disease the beets can be sprayed with diazinon to kill the aphids
causing no harm to the beet plant(Diazinon). Diazinon works by affecting the nervous
system(Diazinon). Exposure to diazinon affects the chemicals that make the nervous system
function properly(Diazinon). This results in a loss of control over the nervous system that
eventually leads to the death of the insect (Diazinon). If the beets are taken to the beet dump and

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are heated to a high temperature the disease is sterilized causing no harm the the humans that
then eat the sugar out of the middle of the sugar beets. Virus yellows causes foliage to become
yellowed or necrotic. Leaf veins may be particularly affected(how DPV and Refs in Frame). This
reduces photosynthetic efficiency, root system development, and sugar yield and quality(how
DPV and Refs in Frame).
Feeding deer or any other animal straight corn when they have not eaten corn for a while
will kill them. When an animal eats straight corn it causes a condition called rumen acidosis
which is when the deers body gets such a carbohydrate shock that it starts making lactic acid,
which when enough is made will kill the animal(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence
- Farm and Dairy). Rumen acidosis is what killed a trophy elk in pennsylvania and since then it
is illegal to feed elk in pennsylvania(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence - Farm and
Dairy). The problem is that deer digestion is a finely tuned physiological process. Just the right
combination of microorganisms, enzymes, and pH enable deer to digest a normal winter diet of
woody vegetation(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence - Farm and Dairy). When
offered a sudden supply of corn, a deers digestive system does not have time to adjust to a high
carbohydrate diet(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence - Farm and Dairy). The result
can be acute acidosis followed by death within 72 hours(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death
Sentence - Farm and Dairy). It takes deer two to four weeks of feeding on a new food source to
establish populations of microbes necessary to digest the new food. It can not happen in just a
few days during a snowstorm. And healthy individuals that might survive in the short term often
succumb to complications weeks later(Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence - Farm
and Dairy).

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The argument that hunters can not shoot trophy animals without baiting them in is wrong.
Many trophy animals have been shot by hunters that were not using any bait or any other king of
lewer to get the animal to come into the hunting zone. Most of my hunting life has been spent
here in my home state of Illinois, and therefore most of my hunting has been done without
baiting(The News Outside). Feeding deer to kill them is wrong because you should not treat an
animal and then kill it when it does not know what going and is concentrating on something else.
Sometimes baiting does not work in the first place because deer know that a pile of corn in the
woods is not a natural thing(The News Outside). I do have some experience hunting deer over
bait and I can tell you this(The News Outside). I have never shot a deer over those bait corn
piles. Not once. The places I hunted in my past were pre-baited sites. Youd think deer would
just stroll in for the kill shot. Not so. The few deer that I did see would stop well out of range,
just before dark, and survey the baited area until total darkness. Deer are not dumb animals.
They know a pile of corn in the timber is not a natural occurrence(The News Outside).
Baiting is regulated by the Department of Natural Resources, but is not regulated
enough. Baiting Leads to the spreading of disease through the deer herd that can kill off the
whole population of the world who eats them. Virus yellows Is a disease spread through the leafs
of a sugar beet when they are eaten by a deer or other animal. Feeding corn to a deer that has not
eaten corn for a couple months can cause a symptom called rumen acidosis. Baiting will also get
the animal so used to having food handed to them that they will forget how to hunt for their food.
The argument that trophy bucks cannot be harvested without the use of bait is false.
Source Page
"Feeding Corn to Deer Could Be Death Sentence - Farm and Dairy." Farm and Dairy RSS. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 06 Nov. 2014.

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"Diazinon." General Fact Sheet. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.

"The News Outside." Heartland Outdoors. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2014.
"Show DPV and Refs in Frame." Show DPV and Refs in Frame. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2014.