"Poison pilled" on Hexbear
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"https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/researchers-develop-poison-bait-feral-pigs/ *According to Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, the state’s feral hog population is estimated at 700,000. Due to feral hogs’ high reproductive rates, 70 to 75 percent of the population must be killed to control the population. Louisiana reports that the hunter harvest is less than half of that objective, meaning populations are growing. Feral hogs are found in all 64 Louisiana parishes. Trapping and hunting, including day and night shooting by private landowners, plus aerial gunning by nuisance wildlife-control specialists, are used.*"

What is the correct vegan way to handle these sorts of overpopulation problems that we've created--other than "complete societal overhaul"/"return to monke"/"we shouldn't have caused this shit to happen in the first place"?

  • DirtbagVegan [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I guess it’s obvious that these animals can’t be allowed to continue wreak havoc on the ecosystem and indigenous animal populations. They need to be removed. I suppose the vegan solution would be to capture them and let them live the rest of their days in a captive environment, but right now there’s not even political will to even exterminate them effectively much less capture and take care of them.

    But poison is clearly the wrong answer and can have knock-on effects to the environment and food chain.