Man, this stuff just gets weirder and weirder doesn’t it?

DES MOINES, Iowa

Iowa wildlife experts are looking into a new deer contraceptive that could curb the state’s multimillion-dollar-a-year overpopulation problem.

The new, single-dose birth control vaccine would neutralize sex hormones in the famously fertile and polygamous animals. It would result in infertility in both males and females.

Well, at least they’re not trying to teach abstinence only. If deer react to birth control in the same way that humans do…..Iowa is going to be full of nauseous, hormonal deer running around with swollen breasts. This is, plain and simple, a really really bad idea.

So there is a lot of deer….too many to shoot apparently….and the solution is birth control? How about introducing natural predators?

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