Disease risks associated with feral hogs
I didn't want to hijack a couple of other threads here that deal with harvesting wild hogs for the table. Yes, there are disease risks that can be avoided with proper field care, processing and cooking.
https://vet.uga.edu/population_healt...e_brochure.pdf
But before anyone gets all worked up and runs screaming from the room, consider the diseases you can be exposed to eating beef. The risks are not that different.
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/400/400-460/400-460.html
Mods, if this belongs in a different forum, please move it. Just seems the discussion is active here in the Hunting with CB forum.
Disease risks associated with feral hogs
True...however, pork isn’t supposed to be cooked until all the pink is gone, that is well-done. I prefer my chops medium.
Brucellosis can present in many other game animals besides feral swine.
I do not recall ever donning a rubber apron and gloves while butchering and dressing out our farm-raised pigs in the 1980’s.
Maybe the more we avoid the pathogens, the more we lose resistance to them and that increases our risk of serious illness from them and mortality...there have been studies conducted supporting this line of reasoning.
Disease risks associated with feral hogs
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Originally Posted by
poppy42
The thought of eating pork that’s even the slightest bit pink makes me ill just think of it. If you want to eat pink porkchops to each his own that’s fine with me . As for me no thank you!
USDA says 145 degrees is fine.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal...chart/ct_index
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Disease risks associated with feral hogs
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Originally Posted by
edp2k
There is a big difference between:
A. animals like beef being bred, raised, fattened, and slaughtered under the watchful eye of the
farmer, ranch hand, butcher, meat packer, each each making sure the FDA or some other gov agency doesn't shut them down or fine them because
of tainted meat, which would impact their livelihood, means of making a living, and reputation (AKA future sales).
(also their feed typically/routinely contains antibiotics, even fed to not-obviously-diseased animals).
and
B. herds of feral/wild animals that drop liters of 13+ piglets several times a year, where if 1 gets a disease it gets passed around to all of them,
and the critters roam around for miles and pass said diseases to any and all other critters they run into/eat with/breed with.
Yes, domestic animals can have diseases, however the fast breeding and far roaming pigs are far more likely to have said diseases and pass it around.
If this is true, please show me the proof.
I wonder if the I-trust-the-FDA consumers think pumping farm-raised pigs full of FDA-approved antibiotics that make it into their bodies is any safer a risk than consuming wild game?
I wonder, also, if consumers of farm-raised and FDA-regulated pork are aware of adverse studies that are intentionally withheld from the public?