Should we be killing (and eating) invasive species?
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Wild hogs are destroying everything in Texas, and around the world many ecosystems face similar problems. Is killing invasive species and serving them for dinner the best solution?
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Many thanks to Dai Due restaurant in Austin, Texas, and to Kurt Wilkin, owner of Skol Ranch.
Read more:
Feral hogs in Texas:
feralhogs.tamu.edu/
Feral hogs in USA:
www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/t...
Invasive lionfish:
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southe...
Invasive species around the world (IPBES Report):
www.ipbes.net/IASmediarelease
100 of the world’s worst invasive species: portals.iucn.org/library/site...
Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Hog history: 00:54
Other invasive species: 02:56
Hunting: 04:16
Other methods: 06:25
Cooking and eating: 07:01
Conclusion: 10:13
Should we eat invasive species?
YES! 🍖
No, I do not want to eat my mother in law
@@CollectionLearning.
😂😂😂😂😂
Yes
Yes.
Personally I think encouraging people to eat invasive species is an excellent way of helping, I hope this idea continues to grow and spread.
like indonesia and other developed country . many fish that considered invasive species in another country just food for other people
heart diseases here we come
why don't we just give them to a zoo to feed them on carnivores or something?
It's mainly animal agriculture that is causing a imbalance in ecosystems and eating invasive species will not even feed 0.01% of the global population.
Theres one invasive species, a big one occupying every single continent? Guess which one😂
@@kanding3369 it's good idea then, to use those invasive species to deal with another invasive species
Ironic that we accidentally make things nearly extinct by hunting and then cant purposefully kill the thing we want to die
Not really, those are two very different groups of people.
The people that are hunting things to extinction have no problem also hunting invasive species.
It's the people that distance themselves from that part of the food chain, either entirely by going vegan or by simply avoiding looking at how their meat is made that have trouble killing invasive species.
You are both clearly non hunters and haven't interacted with hunters much.
@@mitchellcorona8 Exactly. As a hunter, I know that "feral" hogs are intentionally allowed to continue purely as a sport hunting pleasure business.
Usually it's regulations preventing people from hunting that do that.
We have massive numbers of feral deer, feral pigs, feral horses and feral goats where I live and minimal opportunities to hunt them. Much of this is due to pressure put on by supermarket chains to prevent people harvesting their own food.
I would say that is less ironic, and more pathological.
Here in the Netherlands crayfish are an invasive species but catching them is illegal, doesn't make sense.
Which species is the crayfish? There are many different types within the same family. Maybe it's one that doesn't outcompete the local wildlife? Or maybe it's one that replaces a local crayfish that's already extinct in the area?
@@bbd121 the red swamp crayfish
maybe the hunting does a lot of damage to the local ecosystem?
I don't know. I'm not familiar with the subject matter.
@@critterjon4061 Thank you. I've found a couple of articles regarding that. It's really interesting.
They're indigenous to USA and we make spicy Crawfish Boil 🌶️ even though y'all Europeans say we have no cuisine
A couple of German doctors studying camel populations in Australia said, “The only way to decimate a natural population is to make a human industry of it.”
tastes better than chicken!
Until hunters have a vested interest in maintaining camel numbers
If anything, there could at least be a market for camel hides
Camel in Australia? What?
@@ebrimajallow9631 The British brought camels to cross the deserts, but then cars made them obsolete.
But, instead of culling them like a responsible person would do, they released them
Wild hogs are a problem in Florida too but on the bright side it’s given the struggling Florida panther a new food source
Bro A Florida Panther is just a mountain Puma/Lion in California and the rest of North America 😂 We need to settle on one name
I wonder if bob cats hunt feral hogs
Edit, just looked it up. They only, rarely, hunt piglets. These hogs are so aggressive even bobcats don't want a part. That's saying something.
is this a sports ball reference? like your rival team is the panthers but they're still better than the hogs?
@@azerial Introduce 🦁 and 🐅 😊
@@p.ipebomb it would be ridiculous to call the Florida panther a mountain lion since there’s no mountains in Florida 😂
This makes me wonder if another issue Texas has (and lots of the US) is that a lot of animals higher up the ecosystem food chain are gone or endangered like wolves. I’d be curious to see how wild hogs faired if these ecosystems were more well rounded.
That's what i was thinking. I bet alligators would love these things
Jaguars would have been the natural top of the Texas food chain. but like the rest of the southwest they were systematically eradicated to protect cattle ranchers herds. Arizona is their last remaining u.s. territory and only a couple still live there
A growth in large predators also increase predation on livestock. since a lot of pigs are on grazing ranch land, ranchers prefer to kill large predators with an abrasive fixation on the idea. So much so that I know ranchers that prefer to hunt the large cats that wander onto their property.
@@ThePizzaGoblinbut then alligators would then, themselves, be invasive. You can't bring in another species to eradicate an invasive species. It just doesn't work.
@@azerial who said anything about importing alligators? I know I didn't. They're native to huge swathes of the south. You know that, right?
I eat vegetarian. Hogs eat tubers, that's vegetarian enough for me. Now, where my barbeque sauce?
I think there's something to be said for eating sustainable food vs factory farmed food. These hogs are a detriment to the environment, so by eating them, you are actually helping the environment.
Hogs will eat pretty much anything. That is the reason why they are doing so well. They are omnivores and will eat meat if they can get it.
thank god your infection is at stage 1, please find a doctor immeadietly and start eating meat to hold off the "slay queen, crystal girl, lesbian thats also vegan with lots of tattoos and being into buddhism" sickness that sounds extremely sterotypical
Yes...We used to have a problem with an apple snail invasion in a rice paddy. The government encourages people to eat it and now it's not a problem anymore.
which country is this?
From the con tree it of the video and the rice farms probably china
We don't have to eat every one killed, incorporate into pet food or farmed fish feed.
Or, like mentioned in the video, let scavengers have the ones you can't eat
@@robertmiller3529 Overfeeding scavengers is a horrible idea
@@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 It depends how many we don't eat.
By far the most intellectual comment.
It would have been interesting to hear about edible invasive plant species as well.
That made me look up some, and apparently kudzu, one of the mile a minute vines, is edible!
One I know off the top of my head is: Dandelions are edible. They are not typically considered invasive as they do not out compete natives, but they are a foreign introduced species to North America.
Grass?
@@NotUwU-_- corn and other grains are edible, and their byproducts go to feeding livestock. I suggest planting something other than grass as a lawn if you are going for empty edibility.
Wild mustard is one of California's most destructive invasive species. It's also bloody delicious.
The Reynoutria japonica is an invasive species in my country (Belguim), the young tops have the least worst taste, and are the most important to take out the enegi out of it. I hope you are something with it.
I think it's important that we as humans are more cautious and careful when we introduce an animal to a new environment because the consequences can have both negatives and positives for the animal It comes in a tuning environment.
Problem is that many of those invasions were by mistake that were left unattended.
@@lolidasterner414 Yeah, I know but most of the time it's us humans being uncareful when it comes to the environment.
But many of these are unintentional too - ballast water from massive ships has led to certain sea urchins becoming global, and the lionfish spread due to global warming primarily, not an intentional human activity. unfortunately, we have to be careful about everything we do! More money into ecology and conservation, and more care around global travel etc
@@olliesworder1146 I guess seeing where you're getting at. It's important to know that animals have a specific role in their ecosystem and not to upset the balance that they have a role in.
Right. Don't release your pets into the wilderness.
King Crabs seems like a pretty delicious invasive to have....
right!
That's why the russians moved them. Now they're destroying the environment there. It'll be fixed pretty easily once the fishery gets big.
Controversial opinion: Paying influencers to promote eating those species might be the most effective dollars spent to reduce numbers in the wild.
Reduce influencers ? I am in support
Influencers are also kind of an invasive species
@@zurielsssno no no, he means reducing the number of wild hogs by having popular celebrities promote them as a dinner option.
Totally agree
@@nefreston8503 hot iron right there, theyre basic humans first and foremost, we all need attention, are greedy from time to time, how to deal with these things in a healthy way is the question imo, apart from that were quite similar. No need to dehumanize imo.
My concern is that the people eating the invasive species will not let the populations die out completely. They will find reasons why the populations are "in control" or "very small" enough to justify letting them breed to larger numbers again. If these species are actually causing human harm, that would be quite the ethical gray line.
This is the case for Deer in New Zealand. They decimate native forests and have no enemies and are pests but hunters will never get on board to eradicate them totally.
@@thehoundGOT Remember Rodney SPCIFICALLY suggested we eat threatened species, arguing that we would never let a cash resource run out! So clearly different people have different ideas. And now people don't even watn the Tar eliminated. What's next, sympathy for stoats?
That's a very concerning point. The restaurant in this video would like to receive feral hogs in steady supplies for the next few years or decades. So they wouldn't be too happy with the entire population being hunted in one season. Controlling populations up to a point doesn't mean that they stop being invasive and affect ecosystems, just that we humans consider the impact manageable.
@@SeeNickView Excellent point also that went by unmentioned in this video. No surprise that Texas prefers guns over wolves.
If anyone reads this and feels Texan, what are you doing about it?
@@redrockcrf4663 I don't think so, I would argue greed for short term gains will outweigh desire to conserve. That's why we have species already hunted to extinction.
In dumb Queensland Australia we are not allowed to fish and eat the invasive carp and tilapia because they think this would encourage people to transfer them to other places (they are everywhere).
So there solution is to do *_nothing_* and let the environment be damaged?
Australia is a police state what do you expect? Rights ?
@@Blackstar-yd3yf Meanwhile the savage kids destroyed our unoccupied property and the police did nothing. The neybougrs called police and took over 15 min for the police to arrive.
Probably inefficient if they aren't killed/processed as close as possible to a population center, but if they are delicious why wouldn't you add them to the regional diet?
That's the cool thing about Texas there are multiple population centers that can eat the pigs. They where an hour outside of Austin that's a million plus people city. These pigs are literally everywhere in the state.
They aren't close to population centers. I mean what is your concept of close? These hogs like the brush, not busy city landscapes. Research the facts.
Refrigeration is cool
Most people who hunt them will use them as a food source, but you can only eat so much. What the hunters and their families will eat won't make a dent in the population, so, if they're going to be eaten, there has to be some commercialization.
@@georgesakellaropoulos8162they're around farmland so could use it for bait against other pests, or fish bait or ground down as livestock feed.
I used to eat it a couple of times. My mom cooked it in sour stew with water spinach. The meat and skin are tough, cooking it takes time
Probably needs to be cured first... maybe a dry brine or failing that wet brine...
cut into 1in cubes, use a pressure cooker, and put in a can of pineapple on top of the meat cubes so the bottom of the pressure pot doesn't scorch them. Id make pulled pork hog all the time if i had much. Add home made BBQ sauce after the pressure cooker. I make pulled pork shoulder and chili all the time, but I don't get as much wild hog pork as store pork. 55-65min in an 8qt instant pot
So perfect for bbq?
You clearly haven’t had the tenderloin
Remember your outdoor cats are an invasive species too
But I bet they dont taste too good :(
Troll
@@doctortomato9520Here where I live cats and dogs used to be a food source for the poor up until the 1920ies.
@@SeeNickView it's not the domestication that's the issue, if you have a tiger in your living room it's not actually harming the environment outside of your house. But when you let it go it will.
@@doctortomato9520
Cats where called fake hare or roof bunny after WW2 in Germany. You don't even have to be creative with the seasoning, at least this is what my grandma told me.
All in all, great video, but I'm surprised, and a little disappointed, that the prevalence of Swine Brucellosis wasn't mentioned as one of the issues in eating wild hogs. My understanding is that cooking it well enough removes the risk, but given how widespread it is in wild hogs in the U.S., I would have loved to have heard more about it here.
In Italy there Is AN out break of swine pest and yup, it's a huge problem but the politicians are too cowards to admit that the hogs must go.
Interesting. I wonder how many hunters are using ppe. Obviously the food is being cooked, so that's not the issue. The issue is for the hunters and the butchers. I am interested in what percentage cdc has detected this bacteria.
100% Australia has ferral invasive pests. Its crazy to not be eating these things.
Agreed! Since when is eatting rabbits not a good idea?
If only cane toads were delicious.
Cane toad legs taste like chicken 👍
Perfectly ethical.
And makes economic and ecological sense.
Unfortunately wild pigs (domestic pigs gone wild) are terrible in Queensland , estimated at 10 million. Its not legal to sell them for food, though. You can eat them yourself only. As was shown, hunting alerts them. Only trapping works, and it can take months to entice them into the trap. We also have large national parks, where hunting of any kind is forbidden. So they are getting worse. Thanks for covering this topic. After reading another comment I can add that Australia doesn't have any large predators which could prey on wild pigs.
the pig, fish, even crab meat...it's all similar to what we consume now. I feel like invasive species on a insect level gets not attention
People don't want to eat insects
Invasive insects get loads of attention. They are one of the primary reasons for customs and import regulations around plant materials like fruit. Nowhere wants to import somewhere else's agricultural pest.
@@nicklibby3784 if they are big enough, I say why not? A big grasshopper is basically just a land prawnn. Also grasshoppers eat plants and not detritus like some of the other arthropods we eat (crabs). Folks eat crawfish that live in nasty mud, while grasshoppers just live on and around plants. So why not fry up some grasshoppers?
When I was young we had locust problem from time to time in Thailand... As soon as people found out that it tastes good once deep fried, the price went up like crazy and we had no locust since...
What about the elephant in the room: feral cats and dogs? They are the most destructive invasive vertebrates, especially cats, with the highest extinction kill counts.
Cats and dogs are the most challenging invaders to deal with - because people love them.
Yep, you nailed it. Because they are so loved, people won't allow them to be controlled.
You can have a reverse effect by allowing people to eat and hunt them for sport. People keep allowing a small amount to keep breeding for the next hunt
Pheasant in the UK are invasive and are gobbling up resources for native fowl as well as being less picky eaters: populations of reptiles and amphibians are at risk because of them.
Still, they are bred in captivity to be released in massive quantities for sport hunters. This form of ¨outdoor sports¨ is a business and the people profitting from it wouldn't want it to go away.,
Yes, that is a down side, but there is no motivation/money to control the species if you don't allow them to be hunted.
@@bluesteel8376 Nonono you don't get it: they are bred solely for the purpose of being hunted for sport.
When you stop the breeding (and finish off the remaining population) you're done in a few years.
And same happens if species is banned to be kept as pet.
Same here in south Africa with bass species so the government made it illegal to release bass, there is no such thing as "catch and release" with bass here it's a hectic fine and ALL equipment will be take as evidence and destroyed after the trial. This includes any boat and or tow vehicle....
If you go fishing I any public or natural waterway in south africa and catch any fish from the sunfish family you are legally required to remove the fish regardless of size.
I like the idea that it'll replace industrial meat, because that certainly is ONE way to keep the carnivores happy but sustainable
However, the industrial meat makers will have a surplus of older pork and won't sell many.
@@synaestesia-bg3ew isnt that kinda the point? not supporting the meat industry because of how harmful it is?
It will in no way replace the meat industry
@@synaestesia-bg3ewso then they downsize and then traditional grassfed farms will become popular again which is healthier for consumption and can support other local wildlife if done correctly. Industrial farms are not good for the consumer on the whole.
Aren’t cats like the only significant pet humans have that are carnivores? I know they cause environmental trouble but I doubt it takes THAT much meat
The problem is that many invasive species, like the chickens in Hawaii, don’t taste very good so people don’t hunt them. This is why invasive species have spread so much, even though many of them were normally eaten.
Why wouldn’t chickens taste good? Don’t all chicken taste the same?
@@paolotorres8537 the thing is, they have adapted to get tougher meat to survive, also, their diet is different, so their not as big and fatty as a normal chicken
@@Suspectnumber203 then how are we able to eat ducks? I don’t think we raise them the same way chickens are raised
@@paolotorres8537 because ducks are different then chickens both biologically and care wise
I think you should try making chicken stock instead
This is not a question where i come from.
We eat EVERYTHING!
At exactly 3:19 I was shocked for a second that the expert was literally describing Humans. We are behaving like an Invesive species. In my local language we have a proverb that translates to something like "Worms are so stupid that they infect and kill their own host" meaning that If the worms were wise, they would at least preserve their host so that they can live for longer. But the moment the host dies, so do the worms. As humans, we are behaving like clueless worms. Taking more and more from the earth than it can actually give. Sort of like the Hogs.
I mean lack of predation IS the problem here, so having the apex predator of the planet, us humans, predate it is a viable solution.
Some incentive besides control/eradication alone tends to help control/eradication efforts a lot. A potential problem with incentives is when the benefit becomes so great that people start to protect it. The fishing of red king crab is regulated in Norwegian waters where it's common, which according to some sources is done to preserve a population large enough to maintain fishers interest, and that would somehow prevent further spread.
There are other examples with much more severe [known] negative consequences, where the invasive species are protected by the local government, worst example that comes to mind is the Nile perch in Lake Victoria.
is it just me or is the chef a total smoke show 🥵
they usually are
@@Painguine amen
In my experience, in kitchens, they are SUPER hot, but with that hotness comes with a shit ton of emotional damage and baggage. You ever watched the bear, that scene where he cooks in his sleep and almost burns down his apartment? Yu
To iterate on that point, things must always be perfect, but it's life and they won't be, so it's a refire. I watched my chef use a mandolin with a tiny object, no glove. Sharpen his knife daily. Massive respect, but i think I'd have a hard time dating one that was as dedicated to the Art as he was.
As one former professional cook, don’t. You’d go “I can fix him”, but chefs don’t want to get better; they want to get worse. The industry eats you alive.
I live in California and there are feral pigs _everywhere._ Up north there are feral nutria as well. There's a company (I have forgotten in which state) that turns invasive species meat into dog and cat food, which is another practical use for them. Anyhow, weren't feral pigs imported into CA by deadbrains who wanted to eat them?
In my state, Autumn Olive and Wineberries are 2 invasive plants that take over huge swaths of land if given the chance. When I lead hikes about sustainable foraging, I always make sure to mention that you should NOT harvest invasive species sustainably. Eat as many as you want, + some.
Last year, we we spent about 30 minutes pigging out on more autumn olive than 8 people should ever have any business eating, and we're doing the same early summer with wineberry.
Find out about invasive edible plants in your area and go demon mode on them. Jams, jellies, pies, literally anything you can think of, the world is yours.
In the Philippines, we have cane toads from Central America. The species was introduced in the Philippines in the 1930s, as a pest control method in sugar cane plantations.
Google says cane toads are edible. Cane toad Adobo?
Aren’t they poisonous and hallucinogenic.
I'm a vegetarian and these animals eat my vegetable. So I'm ok with this.
LMAO same
Here in SEA, we can guarantee the effectiveness of this strategy. Now our big problem is that their number have been reduce so much that we have to make farm for them to raise their number up to meet the demand of market. And this ain't just one species but many of them too. Back then around 20-30 years ago we have trouble with Locust but now they are basically flying jumping gold mine.
Eating invasive plants and animals seems like a no brainer
What? What kind of question is that? Of course you should eat the animals if you kill them.
As a hunter I can nothing but agree 100%.
I don't know why the title of the video even frames it as a debatable issue. It should be a no-brainer. You don't see commercially viable "invasives" become issues in 3rd world countries where people would just make use of what got imported.
Haha yeah here in south Africa the only invasive animals you will find are either really really hard to catch or they truly cannot be eaten.
There are 9.000 tigers in captivity in Texas and Texans can't think of a way to get rid of hogs.
9000 tigers out of captivity would be wild for the civvies
@@vectra9_9579000 Tigers that should also be back in Asia mind you
Wild Hogs in my country are nasty since they get to garbage more than vegetation.
The invasive species meat market is a strategic investment target, offering exponential growth and sustainable market leadership. This sector not only ensures scalable profitability but also supports ecological balance, providing a green investment with tangible environmental impact.
It's only sustainable when you don't extirpate these populations. Sustainable means worthwhile in the long-term. From an environmental point of view some of these animals are a threat to ecosystems today, so the logical answer would be to remove them entirely so that the damaged habitats can recuperate.
I don't know how much I have to spell it out to you but that's inherently contradictive with your ¨business¨ model
Are politicians considered invasive?
For sure
Are you gonna eat them?
Imagine something saying the same thing to Humans.
We're invasive and destructive in any place we go, more than any other species.
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There are tournaments for Lion fish spearfishing in the Florida Keys
7:01
Is that guy bert from Sitcom 'the big bang theory'?
I thought he had a familiar air around him that I couldn't place, and that is exactly what my subconscious was saying!
totally
Pork meat is the best quality protein as far as amino acid balance and your body's ability to digest them
Lion fish here in St.Lucia was such a problem that local fishermen were catching them by the hundreds, now lion fish Fillets are impossible to find. 💁🏻♂️ However the invasive African Snail was a serious problem a few years ago, and the population of them has seriously fallen so much that’s it’s now unusual to even see one anymore, population self balancing?🤷🏼♂️
Any way we can keep eating them without killing them?
I'm sorry what ?
Yes 😈
Hunting and eating is an option. But what about a contraceptive for those feral hogs? Could that be possible? To develop a drug which farmers and hunters could lay out, hogs would gobble them up and don´t have so many piglets any more? Because controlling them throgh hunting ain´t gonna work in the long run.
If you're going to go to that trouble, you'd be better off baiting. That's what we do in Australia to try and control invasive species (wild pigs, wild dogs, wild cats, etc.)
@@richardhaselwood9478 One could do both and maybe that would be a real chance to get rid off those animals that do not belong.
Right, and lace the environment full of contraceptives and fuck up the ecosystem for other species. It’s so dumb, it’s like saying lets spray forest with roundup so we can kill invasive weed species!
Tell me you live in a city without telling me you live in a city.
@@matteoorlandi856 Yap. Big City dweller here, BUT i still something like this could be beneficial. It is NOT the silver bullet here. Hunting is obviously necessary.
Knowing there are 6ml in the whole US made me take into perspective the fact that in 2021 there were about 1,5 ml in Italy alone, a country 33 times smaller
1:12 - I think his definition of “western hemisphere” is basically “the americas”
The UK (where the Greenwich meridian sits, so technically straddles the hemispheres, but is usually counted as “western”) had wild boar until they were hunted to extinction & have now begun reintroduction.
The ones we can eat yes, the ones we can’t. Fertilizer, animal feed,
Homo sapiens: "Invasive species impact many different ecosystem all over the world. They're super destructive, and hard to control." Also Homo sapiens, has invaded every corner of the blue planet and tries to land on the Mars. 3T: not gonna be a problem any more.
Well we took over the planet and I won't cry about beeing ontop of the foodchain
Wtf we gonna destroy on mars?, shits just dirt, there aint no life there.
Yes, the root of the problems found. Honest and well thought answer.
Absolutely. Why waste a perfectly good food source?
So most people would eat stuff grown in a lab but not a pig that lives off the land 🥴
By this logic, polar bear should start looking for human meat recipes 😂
Yeah, I already pointed that out in another comment. We are the most invasive species on this planet. The damage we do is unprecedented and second place to us is far far more friendly to the environment. At least in our current numbers and the way we live unsustainably. We can be part of biodiversity, but in millions, few billions maybe as scientists say(around 2 billion), but not in 8+.
I'm sure they already have them.
Not just the polar bears!
Absolutely yes. Then after many years a new balance will be reached. But in order to reach balance you need small populations.
human is also an invasive species.
@@communistpoultry That's why we still havent reached a balance with the environment. But we are gradually adapting.
@@SeeNickView Invasive species can't be expelled from an ecosystem. Either they will destroy it as a whole or a new predator will be created / found in order to balance the scales. In the hogs case the predator are the humans who start including in their diet the wild hog meat. In our villages in greece the population of wolves and hunters both increased as the number of hogs grew. But this adaptation takes time and in one day it will be mainstream.
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Short answer: yes
Long answer: this entire video
My two cents is YES!! and there should be prises for the best recipe.
There should also be prizes for the first the biggest and the most.
At some point, every species was invasive when it appeared in an ecosystem. We are, too, and we don't just let ourselves be chased away.
Wild boars in particular compete with us for food and change the ecosystems on which we also depend and which we have often changed in our favor, in a way that also favors these animals.
In nature, even without our intervention, better-adapted species displace less well-adapted species. If dependencies arise on both sides, an equilibrium may be established. Otherwise, only the supply of food will slow down the spread of the invasive species.
If we want to assert ourselves and place value on these foods, then we must take appropriate measures. All the better if we also use the resources created in this way or leave them for other species to use. However, care must be taken to ensure that diseases do not spread as a result of the transfer.
To correct a few things, we do have native pigs; peccaries. And we do have animals big enough to hunt pigs; wolves, bears and jaguars. The problem, is we extirpated many of these animals out of their natural habitat.
0:01 could be reused for another documentary…
With the massive sucess of reintroducing wolfes in yellow stone there should be an effort to reintroduce wolfes were wild hogs are an issue. Obviously only in areas where wolfs have traditionally lived. Wolfs can take on prey like deer, elk, and young bison they could help greatly with the wild hogs. European wolfs would hunt the wild ansectors of these animals the North American grey wolf would easily adapt to pork chops . It would be a win win.
Though wolves can kill hogs, they roam in packs and are much more formidable than those other animals with their tusks and the speed at which they breed. It just makes more sense for them to hunt what they were naturally evolved to. There's a reason why hogs are an invasive species. Relying on wolves would be extremely inefficient.
@@GnomesRoxActually wolves are the wild boar's main predator across Eurasia. A single wolf will kill 50-80 young boars in one year, so they are highly effective at keeping pig numbers in check. Wolf actually show a higher preference for pigs than other prey like deer, because of the swine's abundance, poor eyesight and slower running speed.
And while adult boars are obviously dangerous and typically avoided, the wolves are perfectly happy to concentrate on piglets and subadults, which are highly vulnerable. The pack hunting behavior of wolves greatly aid then in this regard, as one wolf can easily distract the sow while the others grab the babies. Indeed the reason that pigs have evolved to have such large litters compared to other prey animals, was because their piglets were so darn vulnerable, and thus a high replacement rate was needed!
Now it is true that North American wolves have never adapted to hunting pigs. But given how smart they are I am sure they can figure out how to exploit an abundant food source pretty quickly.
Trust me, if we introduce them they would be killed by humans over night because they would be scared of their cat getting eaten by a wolf
you have obviously never seen a pig in real life
pigs are vicioous animals,especially the males
no wolf is going to attach a boar
I stand with PETA! People Eating Tasty Animals. If an animal has to die, let it not be for nothing. You can keep your bugs.
I love how people think raising a cow in small places and killing is good but good old hunting is bad.
One big wild hog killed a old lady close to where I live here in texas
I can feel the vegans
To be fair, humans are also technically an invasive species.
The worst of all!
An invasive species is a *non-indigenous* species that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. (per wikipedia) Humans are indigenous to every continent on plant Earth.
@@eklectiktoni Now they are. But they werent. How long does it take for a species to become indigenous? In terms of world history we are just a blink of an eye. We came from Africa and spread over the last several tens of thousand of years. And we boomed over the last few centuries, which fits wikipedia description(overpopulated and harms the environment).
Right now we and livestock we keep to feed ourselves constitute over 95 % of all mammals on earth(by weight). How can you not call that invasive species?
@@michasosnowski5918 So we should all go back to Africa is what you're saying?
An issue that can cause by fomenting the comsuption of invasive species is it would create a incentive for unscrupulous people. A famous example is in India, when the goverment payed a fee for any cobra caught the wild population of snakes lowered its numbers, but that made people start many cobra farms for profit, and when the demand stopped there where way more cobras than there used to. Is important to watch out for this incidents if we want to avoid a similar disaster.
I recognized that logo on John Tomecek's shirt, it's from a game where the main character can catch and eat any wild animals from tree frogs to alligators.
human is also an invasive species.
@Maverick_42 really!!
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Only outside Africa
Who brings these invasive species???
Ans:- Most of invasive species are brought by human.
So, human are the main reason for this most of time. Stop blaming animals always....🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Nobody does. It's also stated in the video.
@@katarinarosell4422 nice joke.😂😂😂
@@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857Nope it’s very clearly stated
It has the single most important factor: It is double sustainable. so the answer is 100% yes for me.
In my country Georgia we ate all hogs, and we miss the time when people hunting on them
When i was young around 9 years old to 12 years old here in the Philippines. My childhood friend we alwats go the sea because its just couple meters away from house. We just fish any fish including Lion Fish .we just grill right away but we dont pioson ,we dont eat the inner side of fish. Now we dont sea even ONE Lion fish or any fush because of over fishing.
If we can eat invasive species, we should. Not every invasive species can be eaten and the methods to contain those have exorbitant cost already, so if we CAN consume invasive species, it would do so much more than just spending money on other, more expensive methods of containment.
Free food! They should be advertised as organic since they're not farm fed
Blue crabs are an issue in the south of Catalonia, someone found out they make amazing paella. Now blue crabs are less of an issue.
What also didnt help is that we drove out mountain lions, wolves and jaguars. Im not saying they would've fully kept their numbers in check, but they certainly would've helped.
Hogs back legs are really good at making Jamon, being in the wild they will have a very diverse diet, so their meat is a lot less "toxic" i guess, to us than meat that comes from farmed animals with that have been feed all kinds of cheap fodder, not counting the veterinary drug treatment they get.
Hunting or fishing invasive species can definitely work, especially if there's no restrictions. In Texas, you have to pay in order to hunt wild boar. If it had been free, probably by now there would be a problem anymore. In Lake Pleasant, AZ used to be an invasion of striper bass. Once people find out that there's no limit, in about 5 years, you can't find stripper bass in the lake anymore.
Since invasive species lost their predator, then humans should take over that job sadly because someone thought it would be funny to release them in the wild
Alot of the times it's just ignorance/negligence, rather than a thing people did on purpose
Yes next question. Ain’t even have to watch 10 seconds to know this.
They are coming up into Canada now as well. They are so tough they can survive the winters.
Asian carp in the Mississippi is eaten a lot. I really hope it doesn’t reach the Great Lakes
there are videos showing helicopters doing hunting and also metal fences used as traps. one is about nets being more efficient at trapping the whole group of wild pigs. being so strong in absorbing the big hits of big adult ones. they are smart at being able to escape from some metal fences.
7:50... SOLD! Although as a Hawaiian I am all too familiar with feral hogs. Even the Big Island is small enough that conservationists are able to fence off large hog free zones so the native populations can regroup.
The continental US has no chance of doing this.
I understand lion fish is delicious! I grew up in Florida so I know all about them and the Burmese Pythons destroying the Everglades...
But what about the pests that are moving north with climate change?!?
I mean... I'm not sure helicopter hunting with machine guns can reaaaally be seen as doubly sustainable, but I get your point
Every "hog hunt" ranch I've looked at (south Texas) charges on average at least $300 per person per day for a hunt. Many have bag limits, or also charge you per head. This profit drives property owners to continue to allow the hogs to breed so they can keep their business going, which is only worsening the issue. The only ones that care are people you know personally who have had hog damage already done, they'll say "please, come get rid of as many as you can."
Where the king crab problem is at I wanna be there but instead I’m in Texas dealing with wild killer pigs 😭
It's the best way because it takes pressure of other species and gives them the opportunity to rebound
Midwestern rivers are plagued by invasive carp species. They are commonly eaten in Asian countries, but trying to convince the locals here is incredibly difficult.
California says every county has feral hogs, I have never seen them and I spend an extreme amount of time outdoors. Somethings eating them here
I mean they say we have them in NY too, but I don’t think it’s terrible just yet. We have an open season on them all year. Wonder if they reintroduced wolves if they’d eat some of them and the too many deer we have.
Now I want to find a way to get wild boar meat in Colorado. I 100% agree with the points that Jesse G.made. It will help farmers keep growing plants for us to eat and if we can use invasive species as our source of protein it can help combat the environment impacts commercial meat industry.
They're already there.