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When it comes to hogs, it's a matter of extermination, not 'hunting'/sport. Pulling punches with notions of sportsmanship and respect for the animal totally mi
by bigbubba 6y ago
When it comes to hogs, it's a matter of extermination, not 'hunting'/sport. Pulling punches with notions of sportsmanship and respect for the animal totally misses the point. These aren't elk.
Of course, even the extreme measures taken against hogs (explosives, machine guns, etc) seem to be doing little good.
- leetcrew 6y agoit seems like we both agree that "hunting" is not quite the right word for what is going on. to be clear, I'm not saying extermination is morally wrong in this case; it's clearly necessary to protect the local ecosystem. what's tragic is that we created this problem in the first place, and it seems the only solution left is to kill as many of them as we can as efficiently as possible.
- Balgair 6y agoIt's curious. The US is a heavily militarized state, spending a lot of money on it's use of weapons. However, these weapons tend to be very expensive and hyper targetable. But just killing literal pigs, in the wild, with really no restrictions at all, and practically no need to track the kills or process them for food, is a nearly impossible task. Just pure, cheap, blunt weapons will do the job more than fine. But there just isn't enough, even with the massive spendings.
- philwelch 6y agoI’m reminded of Australia’s unsuccessful war against emus: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War