Okay.
Armadillos carry the bacteria that causes Hansen’s Disease, AKA leprosy.
I’m with Beck. Look for the purple stamp!
~VOW
I once worked with a Georgia Department of Natural Resources ranger who told me of a colleague who had lived for years on fresh - emphasis on fresh - roadkill. She said as long as it was correctly prepared and thoroughly cooked, it was safe.
Aren’t these things a big problem in Hawaii, too? I’ve watched some of those videos of hog shooting. They even do it from helicopters but aren’t putting a dent in the population, apparently. How high would the bounty have to be to get more gun toting hog killers out there? What’s the cost of crop damage every year? I’d give it a go.
After flying there in a private plane, using a cross-bow in a tree stand, blasting through near-dark woods on ATVs, and trying to kill wild hogs with a knife*, I’m pretty sure prions weren’t our main risk factor.
I wonder if I could find the actual risk of those diseases though. It would be interesting. Statistically, I’d bet the tree stands were the most dangerous element of the entire trip.
*I never did this, but others did. Five snarling pit bulls fighting an angry hog wasn’t a group I wanted to jump into.
I don’t know actual stats. But feral hogs decimate small farms.
It was nearly a full-time job keeping them out of my kitchen patch.
Electric fencing is not a hindrance to them.
Deer and rabbits do their share of damage. The pigs are on a different level.
We eat feral pig here on Hawai’i Island. My SO’s daughter’s ex-boyfriend is quite a hunter and butcher, and filled our freezers with hog meat. Now that he’s broken up with the daughter, I don’t suppose I’ll be getting any more free meat. Too bad. I made a stunningly delicious pork vindaloo a couple of times.
Can you do pork tandoori?
Interesting idea. Maybe I’ll try that with what’s left of the meat.