On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:20:16 +0100, "Ophelia" >
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>"rosie" wrote in message
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>On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 12:10:00 PM UTC-5,
>wrote:
>> Funny, I could have sworn that I heard that feral pork is not safe to eat.
>> But maybe that wasn't in Florida.
>>
>> http://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493073...nto-prime-pork
>>
>> September 8, 20165:07 AM ET
>>
>> By Jessica Meszaros
>>
>> Excerpts:
>>
>> Wild pigs are a problem in Florida. Hundreds of thousands are roaming the
>> state and destroying scores of acres of fields and crops. There's an
>> effort now to turn the pest into a profit...
>>
>> ...MESZAROS: Mann says he now slaughters up to a hundred feral pigs a
>> week. Most of the meat is sold to high-end restaurants like this one, the
>> Beach House on Anna Maria Island. In the restaurant's kitchen, wild hog
>> meat sizzles in a pan. Chefs prepare it with a red wine demi-glace,
>> sauteed kale and potato cakes. Ed Chiles owns this restaurant. Chiles grew
>> up in Florida eating wild hog. And he says he's been wanting to work it
>> onto his menu for a long time...
>>
>>
>> Lenona.
>We have a terrible problem with hogs in Texas too, they come in , and in one
>evening can destroy a yard, and thousands of dollars of landscaping. Some
>people eat them and say they are wonderful, I have not tried them and have
>no intention of trying them.
>
>Rosie
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>Why wouldn't you eat them?

I've been begging my Son to shoot me one. He sees them on the side of
the road all the time. He doesn't want to have to get out and field
dress the hog and rush the meat to a processing plant to butcher and
package it. Hogs are delicious with grits and fried eggs.

They are becoming pests to Florida farmers who can easily shoot them
while they root around in their field.

William