In late August, GRNC alerted you to a potential disaster as Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler, in an apparent “pay to play” scheme with wealthy deer farmer (and former Food Lion CEO) Tom E. Smith and others, began pushing an effort to expand commercial deer farming – a scheme which could spread “Chronic Wasting Disease” (CWD) from deer herds in other states, potentially decimating North Carolina’s indigenous deer population.
Apparently, House leadership isn’t hearing you yet: They have scheduled the bill for a hearing in the House Rules Committee tomorrow, September 15. For additional information, below is an open letter from GRNC president Paul Valone to Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler which clearly depicts how the deer farming scheme reverses previous NC Wildlife Resources policy which cut back deer farming due to the risk to our native deer population.
