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Afaik, wild boars are full of parasites so I would not recommend eating them anyway. They also eat about anything, so probably that's why they're a good indicat

Afaik, wild boars are full of parasites so I would not recommend eating them anyway. They also eat about anything, so probably that's why they're a good indicator of background pollution levels.

Jimmc414 2y ago
The story seems to be more about the ubiquity of PFAS than of the edibility of wild boar.
- RoyalHenOil 2y ago
  Indeed, from the article: >Wild boar were selected for these PFAS studies because they — and their livers in particular — are good “bio-indicators” of “background” levels of PFAS in the environment.
  - giantg2 2y ago
    I don't eat filter organs (liver and kidneys) anymore due to all the junk that's out there. I don't care if it's farm raised or wild.
netsharc 2y ago
Still they're a popular game meat in Germany. The German Wikipedia page says the meat need to be inspected, also for radiation because of Chernobyl. I remember having a wild boar burger which a friend of a friend hunted, as well as steak from the supermarket... both were tasty.
m463 2y ago
maybe not "grass fed", but could they be classified "organic"?
- yaur 2y ago
  No. Pretty much all game animals eat a ton of non-organic agricultural products, so you couldn’t label them organic.
- gwbas1c 2y ago
  I think this shows that "organic" isn't safer
Modified3019 2y ago
Likewise, bees are great at picking up anything and everything, and can be a valid way to test for the presence of industrial/ag chemicals or pollution across an area. So I don’t recommend eating bees either, and be careful of where you get your honey.
_heimdall 2y ago
A healthy board shouldn't be wormy. The worms are an indication that the animal isn't healthy. Parasites shouldn't be harmful as long as you cook the mest properly, but yeah I can't say I'd be too interested in eating if I found a liver full of worms. I had always heard that raising any pigs on pasture would lead to very wormy pigs as well, especially in the southern US. We raised a pair of pigs on pasture last year and when we butchered them we found absolutely no parasites or signs of previous infection. They were pastured, fed extremely high quality food, but otherwise never medicated or vaccinated. We did feed them plenty of squash seeds when squash was in season, those work great for helping with parasites load. Purely anecdotal, but I absolutely believe that a wormy animal is a sick animal. I have to assume most people raising pigs on pasture have them on pastures that have been sprayed with pesticides and/herbicides and chemical fertilizers, and likely feed a high grain diet of GMO'd feed that was sprayed with glyphosate during harvest.

Afaik, wild boars are full of parasites so I would not recommend eating them anyway. They also eat about anything, so probably that's why they're a good indicator of background pollution levels.

Jimmc414 2y ago

The story seems to be more about the ubiquity of PFAS than of the edibility of wild boar.

RoyalHenOil 2y ago
Indeed, from the article: >Wild boar were selected for these PFAS studies because they — and their livers in particular — are good “bio-indicators” of “background” levels of PFAS in the environment.
- giantg2 2y ago
  I don't eat filter organs (liver and kidneys) anymore due to all the junk that's out there. I don't care if it's farm raised or wild.

netsharc 2y ago

Still they're a popular game meat in Germany. The German Wikipedia page says the meat need to be inspected, also for radiation because of Chernobyl. I remember having a wild boar burger which a friend of a friend hunted, as well as steak from the supermarket... both were tasty.

m463 2y ago

maybe not "grass fed", but could they be classified "organic"?

yaur 2y ago
No. Pretty much all game animals eat a ton of non-organic agricultural products, so you couldn’t label them organic.
gwbas1c 2y ago
I think this shows that "organic" isn't safer

Modified3019 2y ago

Likewise, bees are great at picking up anything and everything, and can be a valid way to test for the presence of industrial/ag chemicals or pollution across an area. So I don’t recommend eating bees either, and be careful of where you get your honey.

_heimdall 2y ago

A healthy board shouldn't be wormy. The worms are an indication that the animal isn't healthy. Parasites shouldn't be harmful as long as you cook the mest properly, but yeah I can't say I'd be too interested in eating if I found a liver full of worms. I had always heard that raising any pigs on pasture would lead to very wormy pigs as well, especially in the southern US. We raised a pair of pigs on pasture last year and when we butchered them we found absolutely no parasites or signs of previous infection. They were pastured, fed extremely high quality food, but otherwise never medicated or vaccinated. We did feed them plenty of squash seeds when squash was in season, those work great for helping with parasites load. Purely anecdotal, but I absolutely believe that a wormy animal is a sick animal. I have to assume most people raising pigs on pasture have them on pastures that have been sprayed with pesticides and/herbicides and chemical fertilizers, and likely feed a high grain diet of GMO'd feed that was sprayed with glyphosate during harvest.