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> 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
by 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 agoAh 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.