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Maybe the solution is to kill the parasites, through detection and processing technology, and spraying habitats. If we really can't eat them, the other solutio
by motohagiography 4y ago
Maybe the solution is to kill the parasites, through detection and processing technology, and spraying habitats.
If we really can't eat them, the other solution is to use chemistry to make something that feral pigs get addicted to and that they will give up food, sex, and nursing their young in pursuit of, and which is a human controlled substance we can manage. Drop enough of it in their habitats that they can always become dependent. If you just try to poison them, you kill off their own competition for food and just create more resilliant ones, but creating a chemical dependency where they will seek out sources that humans control would provide the lever to manage the population.
This solution is related to one I commented on about the rat population in new york city. Just make something they want. I should do a startup, we could call it Pied Piper.
- SamoyedFurFluff 4y agoIt’s very difficult to kill the parasites of precisely one species with broad applicability. Also, your goals and the goals of environmentalists seems to be quite different here. You’re suggesting farming them, but environmentalists don’t actually want them there at all.
- michaelmrose 4y agoAnimals in non-contrived normal environments don't actually do that. Furthermore poison of any variety is unlikely to be sufficiently targeted to just kill pigs and most isn't very humane.