Posted on 11/24/2023 5:26:30 AM PST by jerod
Hard-to-eradicate swine exploding in Canada and threatening to spill south of the border: expert
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.
In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat.
Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, "the most invasive animal on the planet" and "an ecological train wreck."
They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create what Brook describes as a "superpig" that's spreading out of control.
Pigs are not native to North America.
While they've roamed parts of the continent for centuries, Canada's problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said.
The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.
It turned out that the pigs were very good at surviving Canadian winters.
Smart, adaptable and furry, they eat anything, including crops and wildlife. They tear up land when they root for bugs and crops.
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Just wait at the checkpoints as they 🐗 legally cross over. 😁👍
From what I hear, you only eat them at 3months or younger.
Guess we could feed them to the homeless, or...feed the homeless to them.
In Iowa, you are encouraged to shoot if you see them while hunting.
Muslims hate pork, so I say let as many of them in as possible.
Wild pigs do land damage . . . maybe another Chinese “experiment” ?
Good idea. Wild swine will eat fawns. And anything else.
Jews also don’t eat pork. Dietary dictates in the Torah and Koran rather than hatred are the reason for not eating pork.
Homeless pigs are much more scarier and filthier than 'super pigs'.
“The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.”
No words. :( I hate wasting food.
They are not very “tasty” unless you trap them and feed them out for a while. People around here also mix them with domestic hogs for sausage.
Yum-O!
“Muslims hate pork, so I say let as many of them in as possible.”
Open up a pig farm on the border of Gaza. Ship a few hundred pigs there to begin their new lives.
Yup. They are a result of climate change. Or branDUHnomics, or aliens. You just know the democommies will somehow tag it with some absurd ‘narrative’. 😁👍
In the Ozarks, you shoot them and let them lay. They probably have psudorabies.
When a late night TV comic said a joke about EMUS the market collapsed and we saw emus running free all over the place.
So...let Missouri legalize the use of suppressors while hog hunting. Easy, peasy.
You can never have enough studies and plans.....
Super bacon - do I dare
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