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Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by cryptonector on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:28PM (#35304906)
This is nonsense. No farmer or rancher in Texas wants feral hogs, and no one in Texas tries to promote feral hog populations. We have something like 4 million feral hogs. The problem is that avid 1 hunter can take out 20-30 in one night, but they don't go out to do it every night, and there's not enough feral hog hunters to make a dent.

Feral hogs cause enormous amounts of damage, and there's no hope of hunting or trapping them down to manageable numbers much less zero.

Re:Nothing is stopping feral pigs in Canada by MagicMoonlight on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:50PM (#35307195)
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 (#35307635)
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 (#35310690)
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.