re: Wild hogs chomp and stomp their way through $90 million worth of Louisiana crops

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Lot of debate here but in my experience it depends on what they have been eating. The bigger boars are more prone to be carnivorous and eat carrion which makes them smell and taste bad for obvious reasons.

I have eaten both big boars and sows that have been on my feeder for a month and they taste fine.

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Bodenchuk had told me that the government doesn’t retrieve pig corpses because an environmental impact assessment showed that the cost of recovery exceeds the value of the meat they might provide. Besides which, Bodenchuk added, he knows too much about wild pig pathogens to eat them. They can carry more than thirty viral and bacterial diseases and nearly forty parasites. Humans can get brucellosis, for instance, if a pig’s fluids or tissues come in contact with a cut during field dressing. “I could dress a deer and eat a sandwich at the same time. When I handle pigs, I put on rubber gloves,”

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