Feral Pigs

The irresponsible ways in which people act is mind-boggling.  Feral pigs do an incredible amount of damage to crops, to cultural and historical sites, and to mammal and bird communities.  They eat frogs, salamanders, baby turtles.  The economic damage they cause each year is well over a billion dollars.  They are reservoirs for disease.  They are almost impossible to eradicate once they are established.

One reason they have spread is because hunters move them into new areas on the backs of pickup trucks so they can hunt them.  Think about the selfishness and stupidity of that action.  

See Jim Robbins, “Feral Pigs are Coming!” New York Times, (Dec. 17, 2019), p. D3.