Snowforest Taiga when the firetrucks show up

"Until then, any caribou hunted should not be eaten unless it has been proven healthy upon being struck down."

They had been on the same page, until this last piece of advice. Lane frowned thoughtfully. 

"You would have us slaughter the sick caribou, and hunt the healthy ones for food?" She shook her head. Given that all of the animals would fall into one category or the other, it stood to reason that if they followed this plan, the entire herd would be wiped out. 

Askari seemed to clinging to the same overabundance of caution to which Issorartuyok, Eldritch, and Ensio had first ascribed. Because this sickness was devastating to deer, they seemed quite terrified that it posed a risk to wolves as well. However, there wasn't a shred of epidemiological evidence that any disease could pass-- or had ever passed-- from prey to wolf through consumption, this one included. 

A wolf's entire ecological purpose was to relieve the herds of the weak and sick. Wolves had been doing this since the dawn of time.  Lane would not allow baseless fears to deter her people from fulfilling their duty to natural order, because when the natural order is interrupted, the result is chaos. This is known. 

"I would like us cull the sick as quickly as possible, as you advise, but we cannot afford to dispose of the meat and also kill the healthy. This herd sustains not only us, but our two allied packs as well. If we don't harvest meat from the sick, we will certainly starve." There may be a thin possibility that the wolves would come to harm if they ate the sick caribou, but they would face very certain peril if they did not. Therefore, Lane had decided to hedge her bets, and she did so with the confidence of a woman who knew her place in the natural order.