Hunters cause potential health problems

To the Editor:

Deer hunters are causing what could be a potentially disastrous Holmes County health problem. They are dumping butchered deer carcasses in ditches and by the roadside, sometimes as many as ten at a time.

This is not only an illegal littering problem but it could turn into a public health problem as these deer carcasses rot on our public roadways. I can only guess at how many diseases can be incubated in this morass. Not only that, it is certainly giving the hunters a black eye to the non-hunting public similar that that which caused dog hunting to be banned several years ago.

There have always been hunters who would dump their butchered carcasses by roadways, but dumping 10 at a time is a new low from the hunting community to belabor us all with.

We need our local law enforcement to do something about this littering violation, or the Florida Public Health Department to take some state action to put a stop it.

Charles W. Smith

Bonifay