>>2648800Wild hogs/feral pigs with some wild boar genetics, where they are rampant in the US south, have a reputation for carrying disease and being inedible above 50 lbs if male. They do carry a number of diseases that are functionally extinct in US domestic pork (brucellosis, etc), but someone educated to the precautions needed, who follows them, will have no problems, and the inedibility issue is a combination of delicate “chicken tendies” mass American palates and poor treatment of the hog as a meat animal due to the unconscious biases of the majority of people who hunt them.
It’s bad enough I’ve had IRL Texan “outdoorsmen” tell me that if you want to eat a wild hog, the only thing to do is shoot piglets or live trap them, neuter and worm them, and feed them corn in confinement for 6 months.
I’ve shot around a dozen over the last 5 years, and they were fine table fare (except the first three, which I fucked up by hunting in the manner that the locals hunt them, IE shooting several running pigs out of a spooked sounder). You just need to not treat meat like trash just because you’ve been told the animal is evil. After all, the locals have been using tannerite and machine guns to hunt them for 20 years and all they’ve done is create very cautious pigs. The problem is only getting worse because the people in charge of trying to manage the problem operate with their arms tied behind their back, and every township has a dipshit or 5 who creates pig sanctuary by being a belligerent about their property rights or who releases pigs in order to hunt them later. Of the dozen I’ve killed, the 4 largest had the characteristic poorly fused snout of an animal that reached maturity on a grain diet fed into a pan instead of rooting through dirt for tubers and insects like a wild pig. This isn’t a genetic feature, it’s developmental and entirely diagnostic of a dipshit making the feral hog problem in the area worse on purpose.
