Posted: 5/24/2017 11:18:42 PM EDT
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http://www.porknetwork.com/news/industry/wild-pigs-worldwide-problem
During a recent trip to Rome, I heard Italians talk about the problem of dealing with wild pigs, surprisingly just outside the large city. Earlier this year, a Rome man was killed in a wild boar-scooter collision just northwest of the city center. In 2015, two Italians died in separate road collisions with animals; and a Sicilian man was mauled to death on his own property by a wild boar three years ago. Wild boars are one of the most widely distributed of animals, with their numbers varying between northern and southern latitudes in Europe as well as the U.S. However, the survival rate of boar populations in Europe seems to be increasing across all countries. “One of the reasons for the wider spread of boar populations has been the fashion for their meat,” said scientists from the Research Institute for Wildlife Ecology at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna, Austria. Wild boar farms have been established in countries where the species had long ago been hunted to extinction. But farmers, unfamiliar with the animals, were not prepared for their ability to break down or jump fences, and many boars escaped into the wild. Sweden, for example, had no wild pig population 10 years ago, but now has an estimated 150,000 in its forests, writes Paul Brown of the Climate News Network. “The UK also has a boar population for the first time in 500 years,” he writes. |
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You can't get bacon from wild hogs, unless you trap them and fatten them up. They are tasty. Quoted:
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I know a solution. Cage free hormone free BACON!! |
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They breed like crazy, don't they? Seems like hunting parties don't even make a dent. Plus, Pigs are smart, so they figure out how to avoid traps. Quoted:
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I'm doing my part in TX And it's never enough  |
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My friends and I killed 4 300#+ boars im matagorda a few weekends ago Quoted:
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I'm doing my part in TX And it's never enough |
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They breed like crazy, don't they? Seems like hunting parties don't even make a dent. Plus, Pigs are smart, so they figure out how to avoid traps. |
Well the "world" is fucked then if they act like Texas does with their "hog problem" and figure out there is money to be made. 
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