Todd, you make a great point. I was just watching this morning a hunting show that said it wasn't a good idea to feed them because, if one is sick, it drops some food from it's mouth and the next one comes along and eats the same food, sickness is spread. They also went on to say the foilage in a 1000 foot circle where some deer were fed, was changed because the deer stopped eating certain plants. They speculate a 100 year recovery. A lot of pros and cons I guess.