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'Super pig' Prairie problem now approaching the U.S. border (tasty pork cutlets and ribs are heading in your direction)
AP via CBC News ^ | Nov 23, 2023 | Steve Karnowski

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.



TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbq; pig; porkchop; swine
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To: jerod

Boar-ing...


41 posted on 11/24/2023 7:26:05 AM PST by null and void (If you support monsters you will die in the cross fire.)
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To: TStro

The only thing they didn’t have were RPG’s, can’t wait till they get to my State and make it legal.


42 posted on 11/24/2023 7:36:29 AM PST by Rappini ("No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in it's preservation" MacArthr)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I thought that might be the case but wasn’t sure.


43 posted on 11/24/2023 7:56:59 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.)
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To: jerod
McDonald's will want to get in on the action for its McRibs....

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44 posted on 11/24/2023 8:03:06 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; TStro

I read the post to mean that TStro was heck-bent on hunting the pigs to PREVENT the damage the pigs were doing.


45 posted on 11/24/2023 8:06:30 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: FLT-bird

A coupla more years of Bidenomics and we’ll be fighting our neighbors to shoot one of these!


46 posted on 11/24/2023 8:19:34 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: Alas Babylon!

There are feral swine in all big democrat cities.


47 posted on 11/24/2023 8:19:55 AM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: crusty old prospector

—”I eat fetal hogs all the time in Texas”

Are there any concerns about trichinosis or the many other parasites they carry?

I have heard you must cook it to 160F plus to be safe.


48 posted on 11/24/2023 8:28:20 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: gloryblaze

All the evidence is that hunting just scatters a sounder into multiple sounders and makes it worse. Several states discourage sport “hunting” of feral hogs and have programs to capture entire sounders.

Feral hogs are not game animals. The purpose of hunting is to manage a sustainable population. We don’t want a sustainable population of feral hogs. We want them exterminated.


49 posted on 11/24/2023 8:28:37 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I wouldn’t want to eat them


50 posted on 11/24/2023 8:35:01 AM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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To: jerod

Ever tasted aged boar meat....The smell alone is enough to gag you.


51 posted on 11/24/2023 8:46:54 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: jerod

Duh! (I live in Texas...) way better than store bought pork. We say meaner but leaner.


52 posted on 11/24/2023 8:48:28 AM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; TStro

I’m sure the poster and his land-owning farmer friends want them eliminated, too. And they are doing their part. He told of their carcass numbers. What good would it do to wait for some magic elimination formula and let the ones they can get rid of just keep on keeping on?

They are legal to hunt, so that makes them a game animal.


53 posted on 11/24/2023 8:51:11 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: gloryblaze
They are legal to hunt, so that makes them a game animal.

They are not a "game animal."

They are an invasive species.

Evidently you don't know the difference.

54 posted on 11/24/2023 8:53:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: jerod

tasty??? must have a strange idea of what tasty is...


55 posted on 11/24/2023 8:55:53 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I grew up in a family of farmers who hunt, even though I gave it up personally. Feral pigs are both an invasive species and a game animal.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game%20animal


56 posted on 11/24/2023 8:58:35 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When I had a nursing contract is Maine, a patient’s family had taped a collage of photos on the closet door to cheer him on, his illness was serious. The room was crowded with family of all ages.
Right in the middle of the photo collage was the patient kneeling with his gun in front of an enormous hog the size of a MiniCooper. He had come down to Texas on a hunt at one of the big camps and bagged a big one.
With my best Texan drawl and a twinkle in my eye, I said,” You know those are endangered!!!”
The gap that came from the group was priceless. The younger family members looked at him like he had clubbed a baby seal! Dad - how could you !!!
The brave hunter and I laughed until tears.

I read a quote from a Fish and Wildlife official, “if a feral sow has 8 piglets, 12 of them will live.”


57 posted on 11/24/2023 8:59:10 AM PST by myprecious
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To: Feckless

They are not very “tasty” unless you trap them and feed them out for a while.

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I can vouch for that.


58 posted on 11/24/2023 8:59:22 AM PST by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Look up wet aging. Done it with hog, buck/elk/moose and bear.

And always give them a good bath before skinning.


59 posted on 11/24/2023 9:01:53 AM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: gloryblaze

That should be exterminated.

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, all the current crop of feral hogs in Missouri were released by people who want to hunt them. They won’t be destroying their crops and woodlands, so what do they care?


60 posted on 11/24/2023 9:02:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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