Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada
by MagicMoonlight on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:50PM
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If I’m a hog farmer and I can make 200 smeckles for a standard hog or get paid 400 smeckles for each “feral hog” I hand over then logically I’ll just start breeding the feral ones instead.
The market finds the most profitable solution, not necessarily the best solution.
Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada
by giardini on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:32PM
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You foolishly extrapolate to a market that has never existed (in Texas at least).
Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada
by cryptonector on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:51PM
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There is no market for feral hogs. Sure, casual hunters may pay to get to hunt a bunch of feral hogs, but professional hog hunters get paid a lot for it (they use helicopters, to give you an idea of how much farmers and ranchers will pay for that service). The value of a feral hog's meat on the market is zero.
Feral hogs cause enormous amounts of damage, and there's no hope of hunting or trapping them down to manageable numbers much less zero.