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> The solution is to eat them. To quote a certain president: sounds good, doesn't work. Over here in Poland despite having open season for boars all year roun

by Tade0 4y ago

> The solution is to eat them. To quote a certain president: sounds good, doesn't work. Over here in Poland despite having open season for boars all year round and eliminating 185k specimens due to ASF a few years ago there are still a lot of them. The meat is great - leaner than pork and gamey, but it's also expensive - 2-4x more than pork. I mean, they disrupt ecosystems with their omnivoracity and propensity to multiply at a high rate so their population should be regulated, but you can't really compete on price with factory farming.

Scoundreller 4y ago
> The meat is great - leaner than pork and gamey, but it's also expensive - 2-4x more than pork. Is it actually wild boar? We have butchers and farms selling “wild boar” products in Canada, but it’s actually farmed from descendants of recent “adoptions” of wild specimens. It’s wild in terms of genetics; which might still be better; but isn’t accomplishing much in terms of culling.
- Tade0 4y ago
  > Is it actually wild boar? There isn't much of a market for farmed boar, because it's still expensive. We have a strong hunting lobby (many members of parliament are active hunters) so there's actually more bureaucracy with maintaining a farm of them than hunting. Farms probably exist(never heard of any), but it's not a particularly profitable business. Becoming a hunter is actually one of the two most popular ways of acquiring a firearm permit(the other being sport). During the ASF epidemic there was controversy regarding the origin of some of the meat on the market because, according to the law, boars culled due to ASF can, ahem, only be eaten by the one who hunted them, so the spike in supply was suspicious.
  - Scoundreller 4y ago
    Ah gotcha. In Canada, it's basically prohibited to let game meat enter commercial trade. Still happens informally, but nobody is going to be able to walk into a butcher and buy it.
MagicMoonlight 4y ago
We ate almost all large animals on the planet to extinction with just stone tools. If we wanted to wipe the pigs out it can definitely be done with automatic rifles.
- giardini 4y ago
  An automatic rifle is a "machine gun". Hunters, by and large, don't hunt pigs with machine guns. The term you seek is semi-automatic rifle, which is a rifle firing one shot with each trigger press. These are what hunters use. In North America some persons are allowed to use machine guns to shoot pigs. But doing so is a challenge from both an efficiency and a safety standpoint: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/feral-hog-helicopter-hunt-17127504.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/ar... Except among mass killers, the machine gun is hardly the tool of choice for hunting (any animal including humans).

by Tade0 4y ago

Scoundreller 4y ago

> The meat is great - leaner than pork and gamey, but it's also expensive - 2-4x more than pork. Is it actually wild boar? We have butchers and farms selling “wild boar” products in Canada, but it’s actually farmed from descendants of recent “adoptions” of wild specimens. It’s wild in terms of genetics; which might still be better; but isn’t accomplishing much in terms of culling.

Tade0 4y ago
> Is it actually wild boar? There isn't much of a market for farmed boar, because it's still expensive. We have a strong hunting lobby (many members of parliament are active hunters) so there's actually more bureaucracy with maintaining a farm of them than hunting. Farms probably exist(never heard of any), but it's not a particularly profitable business. Becoming a hunter is actually one of the two most popular ways of acquiring a firearm permit(the other being sport). During the ASF epidemic there was controversy regarding the origin of some of the meat on the market because, according to the law, boars culled due to ASF can, ahem, only be eaten by the one who hunted them, so the spike in supply was suspicious.
- Scoundreller 4y ago
  Ah gotcha. In Canada, it's basically prohibited to let game meat enter commercial trade. Still happens informally, but nobody is going to be able to walk into a butcher and buy it.

MagicMoonlight 4y ago

We ate almost all large animals on the planet to extinction with just stone tools. If we wanted to wipe the pigs out it can definitely be done with automatic rifles.

giardini 4y ago
An automatic rifle is a "machine gun". Hunters, by and large, don't hunt pigs with machine guns. The term you seek is semi-automatic rifle, which is a rifle firing one shot with each trigger press. These are what hunters use. In North America some persons are allowed to use machine guns to shoot pigs. But doing so is a challenge from both an efficiency and a safety standpoint: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/feral-hog-helicopter-hunt-17127504.php https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/texas/ar... Except among mass killers, the machine gun is hardly the tool of choice for hunting (any animal including humans).