When I started this thread it didn't dawn on me that everyone would assume this farmer was raising wild boar or was involved somehow with a game farm. This guy is a family farmer raising high end pork on a small scale. He has nothing to do with game farms or wild boar.
If I had entitled the thread "ANOTHER TAX" it is now clear to me I would have steered the conversation in an anti-tax direction. I don't think any of you guys are in favor of more taxes.
DNR has cleverly characterized this issue as one about feral hogs which it is not. No one wants more feral hog damage, especially not me. I do however believe in the family farmer and his right to make a living. Pigs of any breed are not native; nor are cattle or chickens. Its just a matter of time before some bureaucrat decides your chicken or tomato is not native, that it threatens a factory farm and is therefore an invasive species. Pretty clever when you start to think about it.
Yes, the Michigan legislature wrote the law. However, they didn't define the term feral hog. That's left up to the DNR. You and I know what a feral hog looks like and know he's not raised in a pasture. Tomorrow another breed of pig will be placed on their list of feral hogs and that it will be, whether it makes sense or not.
We've had feral hogs as long as I can remember. They are now damaging our crops and those of other farmers. When I was a kid, the farmers and ranchers used to shoot them and pig hunting was a sport. Pigs were kept in check and stayed in the hills. Sometime in the last 25 years, the State ran the ranchers out of business and bought up their land. Now the State spends large sums of money to trap feral hogs on State park land and hunting has pretty much been eliminated now that the private ranch has become a public park. The pig population has exploded and they're not living in the hills anymore. They're down feeding on the farms. So, before you guys congratulate DNR on a job well done, ask yourself, how is destroying a family farmer raising heritage hogs in a pen that are destined for his smokehouse going to decrease the feral hog population in MI.
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