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The nature needs predators. Maybe stop killing wolves like madmen.
Canada has a large and healthy wolf population, especially out west. The Manitoba wolf population numbers in the thousands and it’s also got one of the worst feral pig problems, according to the article. Maybe the wolves just can’t deal with them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/middleeast/haifa-is...
And here, they feel very safe.
> [The] reality is still that outside of the Prairie Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, there are no meaningful opportunities to hunt wild pigs, which is not allowed in Ontario and Quebec In the southern United States it’s open season on wild pigs to keep the population under control. In at least Texas, you can take a machine gun mounted to a helicopter to go hog hunting: https://www.helibacon.com/texa…
> Pigs are dangerous. They’re mean, dirty, and can wreak havoc in ecosystems. Coming across a feral pig is dangerous, and they travel in squadrons so it’s likely you’ll cross a handful at a time. Sounds a lot like humans.
Canada is uniquely vulnerable to feral pig problems owing to what can only be described as a popular resentment of rural culture, which makes solutions like commercial hunts and culling by hunters non-viable. Maybe I should move to a U.S. border state and operate a commercial hunt business.
selling wild game appears to be illegal in Canada like it is in the US. Ostensibly the reason is because of risk of illness but it's likely also due to lobbying by farmers. I think there's a solution staring at us in the face here
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.
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.
The nature needs predators. Maybe stop killing wolves like madmen.
Admittedly I am not an expert, but I'm fairly sure US and Canada has learned that lesson a while ago
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…
Can't those problems be solved at the same time?