The CDC has never even conducted tests of lyme-tainted venison. And has twice restricted guidelines for even REPORTING Lyme Disease, which they want to ignore until the new vaccine is approved.The last vaccine killed people. The county and state dont want to admit we have deer syphilis/lyme disease in Shawnee Mission Park.Donating tainted meat to the poor is dangerous: see Wikipedia/Tuskegee Experiment. The US Health Dept. conducted medical research on 399 uninformed Negroes from 1932 to 1972 to observe the progress of syphilis. Donating this meat to the poor is a bleeding heart strategy to deflect criticism. It's a waste of tax dollars to process and test the meat at great expense. The cost won't be covered by hunters: the plan is to have the cops kill half the deer, since JoCo has no gun license & Lenexa has no bow license. The uppity Ks. Dept. of Parks & Wildlife claim the STATE owns the deer. So why don't THEY pay to manage this, instead of sticking Johnson County taxpayers with the bill? This deer herd management is all a distraction; the real unaddressed issue is DISEASE. The cost of processing and TESTING is much higher than just buying hamburger and donating it to Harvesters. This is a convoluted dance to avoid a PETA lawsuit, or have our actual elected County Commission have to take the heat and VOTE on this. They are hiding behind the Park Board. And Mike Meadors talking about safety? Come ON!!!! This guy removed the warnings from the SM Park Dog Park all winter long, warning of Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever and other tick-borne illnesses. He has no training in food safety or medical disease. He is just Mr. Happy, fooling the naive public that it's safe to attend Theatre in the Park when it is not. The deer are infected with syphilis, from ticks--who just LOVE this rainy weather. Beware, families: ticks perch on the edges of the shrubs. And DEET no longer works. And Perminone (Walmart) must be sprayed on clothes, not skin, one day before.

People who are against this plan are just uninformed, and dont understand conservation. Kill the deer, donate the food to the homeless so they go without feeling hungry for a while. What is wrong with some of these people? Bunch of vegans causing trouble again and trying to impose their personal issues on the rest of society.

Get over it people. Hunters donate thousands of pounds of venison to food pantries and and other organizations that feed the needy ever year. Most of the cost for this is covered by the hunters and different state agencies as well as private hunting groups. The meat is healthier to eat than the stuff you can buy at your local market. If this and other hunts like it do not take place, many of these deer will die of diseases that cause very painful deaths. The people that will be shooting these deer are trained professionals that will make a clean, quick kill. The alternative for the animals is much worse than what the pros will do to them. The cost will be minimal for the processing. Much less than having to purchase other forms of meat to feed the needy.