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[Nabubrush]

I didn't even think twice; I did that for you.

[pmcd9]

TEXANS CAN CONTRIBUTE A LOT TO THIS EFFORT!

Plant a pig

Please donate to your local "Plant A Pig Foundation" today. Not tax deductible, but well worth the effort. In Spain , at Seville some local people found a way to stop the construction of another mosque in their town. They buried a pig on the site, making sure this would be known by the local press. Islamic rules forbid erecting a Mosque on "pig soiled ground". The Muslims had to cancel the project...this land had been sold to them by government officials... No protests were needed by the local people ... and it worked!! Not dummies …. the Spaniards. They found a solution !!! No protests needed!

In Texas they have an over abundance of feral pigs. They could send them all over the country and just plant them everywhere!  Another way would be to capture a lot of the Feral Pigs roaming all over south Texas and run them through a Mosque already built.  After all…contaminated soil would surely drift and they could create new job programs by having soil testers to determine where contaminated soil existed.  Of course, high on the mountain tops of the Rockies or othermountain ranges they might find some uncontaminated soil, but then…building a mosque there would pose some problems…Americans…put on your thinking caps and let’s find a solution to this problem of a spreading menace to the American way of life!  If pigs are the answer…let’s do it!                   

Your Committee for the Betterment of America

Let’s keep this going….send it on!

[littlefallsmets]

Worse yet, they didn't even use the 5000 funnier pig-related puns you could deploy for such a concept.

"Plant a Pig"? Really?

Not even "Hamerican Pride"?

Not even "drawing a Bacon-Dixon Line"?

Not even "you're snoutta here"?

[AugustWest]

Real Americans desecrate houses of worship and actively seek to prevent others from exercising their freedom of religion!

[jay-ell]

Shame on you, AW. You know that religious freedom only applies to Mormons and Scientologists.

[pmcd9]

Cans for everyone.  "You're snouta here." heh heh...

I didn't fact check this one.  It's probably not even true.

Edit: Yes it's true that opponents of the Seville Mosque have put pig remains on a proposed site. 

[wombat]

Here's an article about the Texas pig problem.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/A-Plague-of-Pigs-in-Texas.html

[side_show]

Being from an aboriginal community, it's hard for me to imagine wild pigs or any other delicious or useful animal running loose as a problem.  I guess I had never considered the location of legal hunting though.  That's more because I get to enjoy the benefits of other people's hunting without doing the work myself, so the practicalities are lost on me.  Dar Williams sings a song called "Oh Canada Girls"  where the lyrics about my fair country go " Where we left so much land to itself/That everyone had her own mountain" and I think about that a lot.  There's just so much space here.  The vastness... gosh... it takes my breath away all the time and I live here.  I've seen a herd of a couple hundred wild elks in the mountains of Banff National Park, and it brought a tear to my eye.  Such beautiful animals, living the lives they should.  If I could choose the way my future meat lived, I'd choose that life for sure.

[AugustWest]

Leaving aside the stuff we all know is incredibly wrong in that thing...

Let's talk about Texas and their pig problem. I hear about this all the time, feral pigs are creating all sorts of shitty agricultural problems and they also tend to push other wildlife out as they move through an area.

Texas doesn't have much for public land. For example, if I want to chase pig in California there's about 9 jillion public land spots I can access just in Fresno and Ventura counties. Not the same kind of situation in Texas where public land is much scarcer. The great proportion of private land access is through annual leases which have been going on an upward trend for a decade now. The end result is, the 'free' reduction of what is now a plague animal through public hunting is depressed by the high land access cost. An addendum to the land/lease issue that depresses game pressure is landowner liability and an unwillingness on the part of many to assume possible liability for people to engage in an activity that intrinsically carries some not insignificant risks to person and property.

It'll be interesting to see how the Southern and Mid-Western states now affected will manage this animal as it expands its range and reaches past nuisance status in more and more areas. As far as Texas, I'm in a "you want your private property, you bear the freight of managing your nuisance animal population."

BTW, feral or wild pig is delicious, much leaner and denser so you gotta watch your cooking style. I had to back out of a get together this April over at this place in Tennessee due to conflicts, dang it. I'm gonna book out to Ft. Hunter-Liggett instead.

So what you're saying is that Texas has a pig problem because they don't have enough publicly owned land socialism?

[AugustWest]

Quiet down you shit-stirrer,

Heh heh.  Busted.

[pmcd9]

I'd love to kill a feral pig.  I don't have the proper equipment for such a task.  I doubt my single shot 20 ga. is sufficient.  Maybe I could borrow a rifle from my uncle. 

[Nabubrush]

I'd love to kill a feral pig.  I don't have the proper equipment for such a task.  I doubt my single shot 20 ga. is sufficient.  Maybe I could borrow a rifle from my uncle. 

In keeping with the writer of your feral-pig post, you should get one of these. 20 gauge? What are you, some kinda commie?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Oh hell yes.  Shoot them pigs, cook 'em and eat 'em.  Even I would get into hunting if I had wild pigs readily available.

[lprkn]

In keeping with the writer of your feral-pig post, you should get one of these. 20 gauge? What are you, some kinda commie?

That is basically the perfect heavy machine gun. I'm pretty sure it has the longest continuous service life of any weapon in the US arsenal (besides the Marines' non-commissioned officers' sword, that is). It's a big bastard, but it is also a lot of fun to shoot.

[pmcd9]

In keeping with the writer of your feral-pig post, you should get one of these. 20 gauge? What are you, some kinda commie?

Hah...  When I wrote that I forgot we were talking about shit my uncle says.  I was actually talking about a different uncle.  The uncle that sends out the silly emails is a duck hunter so he's probably got the gun for the job.  But the other uncle has hundreds of guns.  Most were given to him by the manufacturer to review.  The one's he liked he kept. He used to be a sports writer you see, mostly wrote for Guns & Ammo, but he's now retired.  He's hunted all over the world.  He's also written several books.  Of course he's a right winger too, but he doesn't send out silly emails.