https://www.wired.com/story/hungry-wild-pigs-are-worsening-climate-change/
Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the hog hunters must be frustrated, by force if necessary
There is no agent of ecological imperialism more ferocious than the wild pig
Who can forget the time wild pigs put a hole in the ozone layer, detonated dozens of nuclear weapons on tropical islands, or melted the antiquities of Greece and Beijing with acid rain?
I wonder what they've gotten up to this time?
Climate Change
Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck! Everything was under control until those wild pigs came along!
Well wild pigs and livestock from White settlers were tools of genocide in the Americas. Loose livestock, especially hogs which can adapt to different environments, ate local flora so rapidly it disrupted the food chain. Indigenous nations relied on food chains and took conscious steps towards managing those delicate ecoystems with minimal disruption. Wild hogs and horses often broke out of settler custody that they became invasive species before whites got their.
Yeah there's also a weird eugenics angle discussed on the recent :citations-needed: about meat, where settlers believed that their livestock were racially superior to indigenous or hybrid livestock species, and that generations of consuming the meat of these "superior" breeds contributed to settlers' racial superiority. I guess their hogs really did conquer North America as an invasive species though...
not to mention, the false equivalence of cars belching fossil carbon and pigs flipping the top 6" of soil to get their tummies a yummy.
What if we hired millions of people with pig catching nets to scoop up all the swine and put them on rockets to a swine space station will they live out the rest of their days?
Poor lil piggies, it's not their fault, they're just doing what they were born to do. They don't have an understanding of climate change. Humans DO understand climate change and continue to make this place worse KNOWINGLY, yet news articles call out these innocent pigs
What about the animal rights of all the species they threaten as an invasive species
I'm not saying they're not invasive, I'm saying it's not their fault for being invasive.
Yeah but you can't really be angry animals for doing anything as it's pointless as they don't have the capacity to understand it
Anybody remember that Something Awful thread where a goon from like Texas was making videos of himself stalking feral pigs on his property, half naked, with a spear?
Goons have not been known for making choices that increase their life expectancies
The older ones do, especially boars. Sure, younger ones are mostly fine but not as good as produced pork.
No doubt a wild animal isn't going to have as refined a taste as a farmed one but I've had some pretty good wild pig
edit: i think someone else mentioned it but 'gamey' wild meat is a flavor not everyone likes so that may contribute
Feral hogs are legally hunted at least in the south, and growing up I knew many people who hunted hogs regularly. Boars are often not eaten because pork from uncastrated hogs is more likely to have boar taint which makes the meat unpalatable. Reputable pork producers only butcher gilts and barrows (non-reproductive hogs) to avoid this.
There’s also the fact that unfinished (not fed for slaughter) pork is much more lean than pork you’d get at the supermarket, but some people care more about this than others.
