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How much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?
Does cooking not kill the parasites?
The nature needs predators. Maybe stop killing wolves like madmen.
Wolves rely on causing panic, isolating few individuals and then hunt them over a long period of time. They have high stamina, good coordination and composure. However pigs can just decide to run at you and fuck you up. Wolves often don't like these odds.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
Ah here is the issue, feral pig meat isn’t really pork the way most people know it. It’s gamey and often parasite ridden.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
I can't make out whether you're in the US or Canada, but where I live (Washington State) if you're out in the sticks, not only can you open carry but if you're hiking, fishing, hunting, etc. you can have a concealed weapon without a permit. Are you telling me there are states out east where you're no longer allowed to even *open* carry a gun in the woods?
(Also the reservist tie-in is a little bit weird. I'm 50, I ain't drawing no TA-50. That makes me ineligible?)
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Does cooking not kill the parasites?
Cooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
The solution is to eat them. It's humane and it's free range pork. Let rural butchers test and certify the meat and sell it to local restaurants as a super premium product, then leverage the now all electronic game tag system for supply chain management. The only thing standing in the way of solving the feral pig problem is the attitudes of the urban governing class toward people capable of hunting and our histrionic…
Ah here is the issue, feral pig meat isn’t really pork the way most people know it. It’s gamey and often parasite ridden.
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Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor. Texas is contending with a similar problem, and if Texans can’t find a way to eat them, you know that meat is worthless.
Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.
Don't take my word for it, here is proof by inference: hunters in Texas aren't barbecueing it already, thus it's not edible, QED.
It's a problem here in Israel too! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/middleeast/haifa-is... And here, they feel very safe.
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Cooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
Gamma irradiation is very effective at killing trichinosis in swine flesh and is approved for this purpose in America.
In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)