I was gonna post in the Other Areas forum after hearing 1/2 the story, a Canadian Liberal MP (member of parliment{sp?}) is speaking out against Germany and their annual wild boar hunt.
Then I heard the other 1/2 of the story, the move is in retaliation to Germany planning to ban imports of our seal products, many people on our east coast rely on the seal hunt to get by, especially since the cod fishery collapsed.
I'm split, the guy is a doofus for opposing a sustainable hunt run by another nation, but then again, our seal hunt is completely sustainable and good management, its simply a hard sell because the baby seals are so cute.
What are your thoughts, fight fire with fire, or be the bigger man and don't raise a stink about there hunt?
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Business interests or not, it's none of Canada's business whether the Germanshunt boars. Ottowa should work on developing sustainable businessat home, not hindering businessoverseas. Furthermore, Germany has been having a heck of a problem with wild boars wandering through towns and generally being obnoxious to human neighbors. Population management is the name of the game.
Wild boar are a pest species where I live in America, GA allows unlimited, year long wild hog killing. These are not the pure wild species like in Europe, but the principle is the same and they are just as viscious when cornered. I kill everyone I can, and the meat is not good. Nasty animals that eat carion. Good for Germany.
These ol' Tennessee wild boar are better than any pork out of a cellophane package if they're butchered right.
Personal taste I suppose. My family has run a slaughter house / meat packing facility for over 80 years, wild and domesticated meats of all kinds. I just don't like wild boar, and I can assure you we do properly prepare it, unless you have more experience that we lack in butchering techniques?
As Canadians on the issue of the Seal hunt, we shouldn't care what the Germans think or any one else for that matter.To even respond to their whining and make mention of their Boar Huntis a waste of breath.
I for one will stop eating any German food from this day forth. The swine can live with their swine...
Mature boars usually have a "strong" taste--slaughterhouses won't take boars--they have to be bars (castrated). Some folks around here will trap live hogs, castrate the young boars, and release them for hunting later. I just got back from a hunt in SC, and my buddy killed a nice boar (#200-#225). He cooked a sample of the meat to be sure, and said it was fine. We'll be eating it at a cook-out in a week or so.
Wild sows are just fine.
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It is true that most mature European boars do stink and the meat is very strong: There are exceptions: i killed a European boarin 2005in OK that weighed over 350 pounds field dressed-the scale pegged out. The animal did not stink any more than some 150 pounders that i have killed. The meat was a little strong and most of the animal was made into sausage.
Old domestic breeding boar hogs are often sold off and the meat is often made into pepperoni.
I hate sourkraut anyways, lets boycot this stuff.
Europeans are all hypocrits anyways, they worked hard (and temperarily succeeded) to shut down the grizzly hunts in BC. THEN shot the first brown bear to return to Germany in a hundred years for eatin someones chicken.
They boycott our fur and timber then log and trap themselves. Just a way to close the borders to competision.
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