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America is facing 'time-bomb' explosion of millions of 'super pigs' that can reproduce at just three months old, grow up to 400lbs and destroy thousands of square miles of farms and livestock
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 22, 2020 | James Gordon

Posted on 09/22/2020 5:55:34 AM PDT by C19fan

The United States is on the cusp of a huge pig 'time bomb' with the number feral hogs increasing in huge numbers.

Research scientist Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist who has been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep on growing unless there is a sudden swine flu epidemic.

'It's a crazy situation with everything that's happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has exploded in North America,' Jack Mayer told The Daily Beast about the wild population of six million and two million in Texas alone.

Florida, Georgia, and California also have vast populations.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: agriculture; pigs
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This is not the first time feral pigs reeked havoc in North America. When the Spanish came to American they would leave pigs at spots thought good for future colonies as a ready food supply. The pigs migrated deep into the interior spreading disease to the native people.
1 posted on 09/22/2020 5:55:34 AM PDT by C19fan
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Sounds like Democrat pigs.


2 posted on 09/22/2020 5:56:34 AM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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Mmmmmmmm!

Bacon!


3 posted on 09/22/2020 5:57:20 AM PDT by airborne (I don't always scream at the TV but when I do it's hockey season!)
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I have some friends that would love to thin the herd or simply eliminate it.


4 posted on 09/22/2020 5:57:56 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: airborne

Faster to the table, TOO!


5 posted on 09/22/2020 5:57:57 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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>America is facing ‘time-bomb’ explosion..

Of deliciousness?


6 posted on 09/22/2020 5:58:26 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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Millions of 400-pound pigs throughout Texas, Florida and Georgia? No problem. Pig + 2nd Amendment = free food.

California’s screwed.


7 posted on 09/22/2020 5:58:33 AM PDT by dangus
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Hog hunting is fun. With good eating/BBQ results.

Bring a powerful rifle and the ability/willingness to use it. AND a .45 ACP (or better) on your hip. (Are you SURE it’s dead, and alone, when you walk up to the carcass?)

24 X 7 X 365 with spotting and suppressors permitted in GA.


8 posted on 09/22/2020 5:59:17 AM PDT by Blueflag
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Hmm, is “wild pig” bacon any tastier than farmed pig bacon?


9 posted on 09/22/2020 5:59:21 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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24 X 7 X 366

We get an extra day of madness this year.


10 posted on 09/22/2020 6:00:24 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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They sound like BLM/ANTIFA pigs.


11 posted on 09/22/2020 6:00:30 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Another example of the devastation caused by evil Europeans.../s


12 posted on 09/22/2020 6:00:53 AM PDT by shotgun
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People release them into the national forest here and then hunt them.


13 posted on 09/22/2020 6:01:25 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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A plague of pigs


14 posted on 09/22/2020 6:01:39 AM PDT by xp38
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15 posted on 09/22/2020 6:02:02 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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I think the males are too gamey


16 posted on 09/22/2020 6:02:06 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.


17 posted on 09/22/2020 6:02:41 AM PDT by albie
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WooHoo! I mean, Yeehaaw! Pig bomb!


18 posted on 09/22/2020 6:02:48 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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Completely basing this on zero experience and knowledge, I would assume wild hogs meat isn’t as tender?...


19 posted on 09/22/2020 6:04:20 AM PDT by EEGator
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Wigwam

Pig Storm

20 posted on 09/22/2020 6:05:35 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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