In Texas at least, the vast majority of CWD positives come from breeding farms/game ranches that sell cervids to other locations to hunt/increase their herds. Something like 80% of all positives come from game ranches or places w a high fenced boundary (game fence - you can tell a game breeding facility by their fences, typically 10-15' high when the surrounding properties will only have a couple strands of barbed wire 3-4' off the ground on some old salt cedar posts.) Its in 30 of the 254 counties in Texas as of early 2024 IIRC. It only took three years to get from the Hueco Mountains near El Paso, to Bexar County/San Antonio in the south of Texas. Three fucking years.

So they don't even actually hunt wild game? It's game bred in a farm released with no survival skills (and therefore easily "hunted")

This is probably the most American thing I've ever heard, fake astroturf rugged individualism and frontiersmanship.