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A Facebook post in October 2018 featuring an afflicted animal was described as picturing A deer that became riddled with tumors from eating plants sprayed with Monsanto's Roundup brand of herbicide: The backstory to that image was similar to an incident from several years earlier, when the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock Township made the news in January 2012 as an area of controversy over how much environmental impact the process of fracking (hydraulic fracturing) for extracting natural gas might be having on the local water supply: This controversy prompted the circulation of a photograph which supposedly tied the fracking activities in Dimock to the discovery of a cancerous deer in that area: However, that image had nothing to do with Dimock or fracking, just as the picture at the head of this page has nothing to do with Roundup. These photographs document cutaneous fibromas (warts) that occur among white-tailed deer and are a phenomenon caused by a virus and not environmental hazards, as described by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP): The Buck Manager website offers similar information about the phenomenon:
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