Should we be killing (and eating) invasive species?

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Wild hogs are destroying everything in Texas, and around the world many ecosystems face similar problems. Is killing invasive species and serving them for dinner the best solution?
#planeta #invasiveanimals #hoghunting
We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Our new channel Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world - and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.
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Credits:
Reporter: Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Camera: Ryan Dowling
Video Editor(s): Amanda Coulson-Drasner
Supervising Editor: Michael Trobridge, Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann
Many thanks to Dai Due restaurant in Austin, Texas, and to Kurt Wilkin, owner of Skol Ranch.
Read more:
Feral hogs in Texas:
feralhogs.tamu.edu/
Feral hogs in USA:
www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/t...
Invasive lionfish:
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/southe...
Invasive species around the world (IPBES Report):
www.ipbes.net/IASmediarelease
100 of the world’s worst invasive species: portals.iucn.org/library/site...
Chapters:
Intro: 00:00
Hog history: 00:54
Other invasive species: 02:56
Hunting: 04:16
Other methods: 06:25
Cooking and eating: 07:01
Conclusion: 10:13

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22 май 2024

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@DWPlanetA 13 дней назад

Should we eat invasive species?

@shitzuation 13 дней назад

YES! 🍖

@CollectionLearning. 13 дней назад

No, I do not want to eat my mother in law

@deebarnard5439 13 дней назад

@@CollectionLearning. 😂😂😂😂😂

@MaticTheProto 13 дней назад

Yes

@KarlosEPM 13 дней назад

Yes.

@ger5956 13 дней назад

Personally I think encouraging people to eat invasive species is an excellent way of helping, I hope this idea continues to grow and spread.

@Juminten-bv1xw 13 дней назад

like indonesia and other developed country . many fish that considered invasive species in another country just food for other people

@greatveemon2 12 дней назад

heart diseases here we come why don't we just give them to a zoo to feed them on carnivores or something?

@ab-td7gq 12 дней назад

It's mainly animal agriculture that is causing a imbalance in ecosystems and eating invasive species will not even feed 0.01% of the global population.

@kanding3369 11 дней назад

Theres one invasive species, a big one occupying every single continent? Guess which one😂

@user-hz7hk4hm8f 10 дней назад

@@kanding3369 it's good idea then, to use those invasive species to deal with another invasive species

@someasiandude4797 13 дней назад

Ironic that we accidentally make things nearly extinct by hunting and then cant purposefully kill the thing we want to die

@Zednor9 12 дней назад

Not really, those are two very different groups of people. The people that are hunting things to extinction have no problem also hunting invasive species. It's the people that distance themselves from that part of the food chain, either entirely by going vegan or by simply avoiding looking at how their meat is made that have trouble killing invasive species.

@mitchellcorona8 11 дней назад

You are both clearly non hunters and haven't interacted with hunters much.

@matthew3136 10 дней назад

@@mitchellcorona8 Exactly. As a hunter, I know that "feral" hogs are intentionally allowed to continue purely as a sport hunting pleasure business.

@AndyViant 10 дней назад

Usually it's regulations preventing people from hunting that do that. We have massive numbers of feral deer, feral pigs, feral horses and feral goats where I live and minimal opportunities to hunt them. Much of this is due to pressure put on by supermarket chains to prevent people harvesting their own food.

@phaedrussmith1949 10 дней назад

I would say that is less ironic, and more pathological.

@DoozyyTV 13 дней назад

Here in the Netherlands crayfish are an invasive species but catching them is illegal, doesn't make sense.

@bbd121 11 дней назад

Which species is the crayfish? There are many different types within the same family. Maybe it's one that doesn't outcompete the local wildlife? Or maybe it's one that replaces a local crayfish that's already extinct in the area?

@critterjon4061 10 дней назад

@@bbd121 the red swamp crayfish

@blu0065 10 дней назад

maybe the hunting does a lot of damage to the local ecosystem? I don't know. I'm not familiar with the subject matter.

@bbd121 10 дней назад

@@critterjon4061 Thank you. I've found a couple of articles regarding that. It's really interesting.

@p.ipebomb 10 дней назад

They're indigenous to USA and we make spicy Crawfish Boil 🌶️ even though y'all Europeans say we have no cuisine

@rdapigleo 12 дней назад

A couple of German doctors studying camel populations in Australia said, “The only way to decimate a natural population is to make a human industry of it.”

@silverbird425 6 дней назад

tastes better than chicken!

@hcn6708 6 дней назад

Until hunters have a vested interest in maintaining camel numbers

@riograndedosulball248 4 дня назад

If anything, there could at least be a market for camel hides

@ebrimajallow9631 4 дня назад

Camel in Australia? What?

@hcn6708 4 дня назад

@@ebrimajallow9631 The British brought camels to cross the deserts, but then cars made them obsolete. But, instead of culling them like a responsible person would do, they released them

@levismith7444 13 дней назад

Wild hogs are a problem in Florida too but on the bright side it’s given the struggling Florida panther a new food source

@p.ipebomb 10 дней назад

Bro A Florida Panther is just a mountain Puma/Lion in California and the rest of North America 😂 We need to settle on one name

@azerial 10 дней назад

I wonder if bob cats hunt feral hogs Edit, just looked it up. They only, rarely, hunt piglets. These hogs are so aggressive even bobcats don't want a part. That's saying something.

@007kingifrit 9 дней назад

is this a sports ball reference? like your rival team is the panthers but they're still better than the hogs?

@lansken 9 дней назад

@@azerial Introduce 🦁 and 🐅 😊

@levismith7444 9 дней назад

@@p.ipebomb it would be ridiculous to call the Florida panther a mountain lion since there’s no mountains in Florida 😂

@stephaniemcginness784 13 дней назад

This makes me wonder if another issue Texas has (and lots of the US) is that a lot of animals higher up the ecosystem food chain are gone or endangered like wolves. I’d be curious to see how wild hogs faired if these ecosystems were more well rounded.

@ThePizzaGoblin 13 дней назад

That's what i was thinking. I bet alligators would love these things

@viewer-of-content 12 дней назад

Jaguars would have been the natural top of the Texas food chain. but like the rest of the southwest they were systematically eradicated to protect cattle ranchers herds. Arizona is their last remaining u.s. territory and only a couple still live there

@chubbstrevino1354 11 дней назад

A growth in large predators also increase predation on livestock. since a lot of pigs are on grazing ranch land, ranchers prefer to kill large predators with an abrasive fixation on the idea. So much so that I know ranchers that prefer to hunt the large cats that wander onto their property.

@azerial 10 дней назад

@@ThePizzaGoblinbut then alligators would then, themselves, be invasive. You can't bring in another species to eradicate an invasive species. It just doesn't work.

@ThePizzaGoblin 10 дней назад

@@azerial who said anything about importing alligators? I know I didn't. They're native to huge swathes of the south. You know that, right?

@zettaiengineer4202 13 дней назад

We don't have to eat every one killed, incorporate into pet food or farmed fish feed.

@robertmiller3529 3 дня назад

Or, like mentioned in the video, let scavengers have the ones you can't eat

@iandavidvillaloboswong5180 3 дня назад

@@robertmiller3529 Overfeeding scavengers is a horrible idea

@Suspectnumber203 6 дней назад

The problem is that many invasive species, like the chickens in Hawaii, don’t taste very good so people don’t hunt them. This is why invasive species have spread so much, even though many of them were normally eaten.

@emilyarchibald1900 13 дней назад

It would have been interesting to hear about edible invasive plant species as well.

@BloodAsp 13 дней назад

That made me look up some, and apparently kudzu, one of the mile a minute vines, is edible! One I know off the top of my head is: Dandelions are edible. They are not typically considered invasive as they do not out compete natives, but they are a foreign introduced species to North America.

@NotUwU-_- 13 дней назад

Grass?

@BloodAsp 13 дней назад

@@NotUwU-_- corn and other grains are edible, and their byproducts go to feeding livestock. I suggest planting something other than grass as a lawn if you are going for empty edibility.

@davidblair9877 13 дней назад

Wild mustard is one of California's most destructive invasive species. It's also bloody delicious.

@tijsvanlaere3845 13 дней назад

The Reynoutria japonica is an invasive species in my country (Belguim), the young tops have the least worst taste, and are the most important to take out the enegi out of it. I hope you are something with it.

@paytonturner1421 13 дней назад

I think it's important that we as humans are more cautious and careful when we introduce an animal to a new environment because the consequences can have both negatives and positives for the animal It comes in a tuning environment.

@lolidasterner414 13 дней назад

Problem is that many of those invasions were by mistake that were left unattended.

@paytonturner1421 13 дней назад

@@lolidasterner414 Yeah, I know but most of the time it's us humans being uncareful when it comes to the environment.

@olliesworder1146 12 дней назад

But many of these are unintentional too - ballast water from massive ships has led to certain sea urchins becoming global, and the lionfish spread due to global warming primarily, not an intentional human activity. unfortunately, we have to be careful about everything we do! More money into ecology and conservation, and more care around global travel etc

@paytonturner1421 12 дней назад

@@olliesworder1146 I guess seeing where you're getting at. It's important to know that animals have a specific role in their ecosystem and not to upset the balance that they have a role in.

@azerial 10 дней назад

Right. Don't release your pets into the wilderness.

@anameglass1607 13 дней назад

I eat vegetarian. Hogs eat tubers, that's vegetarian enough for me. Now, where my barbeque sauce?

@azerial 10 дней назад

I think there's something to be said for eating sustainable food vs factory farmed food. These hogs are a detriment to the environment, so by eating them, you are actually helping the environment.

@bluesteel8376 9 дней назад

Hogs will eat pretty much anything. That is the reason why they are doing so well. They are omnivores and will eat meat if they can get it.

@DarkMark-cf1ec 3 дня назад

thank god your infection is at stage 1, please find a doctor immeadietly and start eating meat to hold off the "slay queen, crystal girl, lesbian thats also vegan with lots of tattoos and being into buddhism" sickness that sounds extremely sterotypical

@RScamble 7 дней назад

Yes...We used to have a problem with an apple snail invasion in a rice paddy. The government encourages people to eat it and now it's not a problem anymore.

@lewis8247 2 дня назад

which country is this?

@homo-sapiens-dubium 12 дней назад

Controversial opinion: Paying influencers to promote eating those species might be the most effective dollars spent to reduce numbers in the wild.

@zurielsss 9 дней назад

Reduce influencers ? I am in support

@nefreston8503 8 дней назад

Influencers are also kind of an invasive species

@Moribus_Artibus 8 дней назад

@@zurielsssno no no, he means reducing the number of wild hogs by having popular celebrities promote them as a dinner option.

@prashanthb6521 8 дней назад

Totally agree

@homo-sapiens-dubium 8 дней назад

@@nefreston8503 hot iron right there, theyre basic humans first and foremost, we all need attention, are greedy from time to time, how to deal with these things in a healthy way is the question imo, apart from that were quite similar. No need to dehumanize imo.

@hanklean9773 8 дней назад

King Crabs seems like a pretty delicious invasive to have....

@matt45540 13 дней назад

Remember your outdoor cats are an invasive species too

@doctortomato9520 12 дней назад

But I bet they dont taste too good :(

@ericliu5491 12 дней назад

Troll

@alexeitheswiss7378 11 дней назад

@@doctortomato9520Here where I live cats and dogs used to be a food source for the poor up until the 1920ies.

@matt45540 11 дней назад

@@SeeNickView it's not the domestication that's the issue, if you have a tiger in your living room it's not actually harming the environment outside of your house. But when you let it go it will.

@capriceranana5733 10 дней назад

@@doctortomato9520 Cats where called fake hare or roof bunny after WW2 in Germany. You don't even have to be creative with the seasoning, at least this is what my grandma told me.

@theysisossenthime 13 дней назад

My concern is that the people eating the invasive species will not let the populations die out completely. They will find reasons why the populations are "in control" or "very small" enough to justify letting them breed to larger numbers again. If these species are actually causing human harm, that would be quite the ethical gray line.

@thehoundGOT 12 дней назад

This is the case for Deer in New Zealand. They decimate native forests and have no enemies and are pests but hunters will never get on board to eradicate them totally.

@redrockcrf4663 12 дней назад

@@thehoundGOT Remember Rodney SPCIFICALLY suggested we eat threatened species, arguing that we would never let a cash resource run out! So clearly different people have different ideas. And now people don't even watn the Tar eliminated. What's next, sympathy for stoats?

@NewAge374 12 дней назад

That's a very concerning point. The restaurant in this video would like to receive feral hogs in steady supplies for the next few years or decades. So they wouldn't be too happy with the entire population being hunted in one season. Controlling populations up to a point doesn't mean that they stop being invasive and affect ecosystems, just that we humans consider the impact manageable.

@NewAge374 12 дней назад

@@SeeNickView Excellent point also that went by unmentioned in this video. No surprise that Texas prefers guns over wolves. If anyone reads this and feels Texan, what are you doing about it?

@cangevendi 12 дней назад

@@redrockcrf4663 I don't think so, I would argue greed for short term gains will outweigh desire to conserve. That's why we have species already hunted to extinction.

@YoJesusMorales 13 дней назад

Probably inefficient if they aren't killed/processed as close as possible to a population center, but if they are delicious why wouldn't you add them to the regional diet?

@thaddaeusareswolf 11 дней назад

That's the cool thing about Texas there are multiple population centers that can eat the pigs. They where an hour outside of Austin that's a million plus people city. These pigs are literally everywhere in the state.

@azerial 10 дней назад

They aren't close to population centers. I mean what is your concept of close? These hogs like the brush, not busy city landscapes. Research the facts.

@hcn6708 6 дней назад

Refrigeration is cool

@georgesakellaropoulos8162 3 дня назад

Most people who hunt them will use them as a food source, but you can only eat so much. What the hunters and their families will eat won't make a dent in the population, so, if they're going to be eaten, there has to be some commercialization.

@mallardofmodernia8092 3 дня назад

@@georgesakellaropoulos8162they're around farmland so could use it for bait against other pests, or fish bait or ground down as livestock feed.

@SisterSunny 12 дней назад

I like the idea that it'll replace industrial meat, because that certainly is ONE way to keep the carnivores happy but sustainable

@synaestesia-bg3ew 6 дней назад

However, the industrial meat makers will have a surplus of older pork and won't sell many.

@nohsek1091 5 дней назад

@@synaestesia-bg3ew isnt that kinda the point? not supporting the meat industry because of how harmful it is?

@dogguy8603 4 дня назад

It will in no way replace the meat industry

@mallardofmodernia8092 3 дня назад

@@synaestesia-bg3ewso then they downsize and then traditional grassfed farms will become popular again which is healthier for consumption and can support other local wildlife if done correctly. Industrial farms are not good for the consumer on the whole.

@ScheelAngel 2 дня назад

Aren’t cats like the only significant pet humans have that are carnivores? I know they cause environmental trouble but I doubt it takes THAT much meat

@Kylelongwest 13 дней назад

I used to eat it a couple of times. My mom cooked it in sour stew with water spinach. The meat and skin are tough, cooking it takes time

@NotoriousPyro 12 дней назад

Probably needs to be cured first... maybe a dry brine or failing that wet brine...

@viewer-of-content 12 дней назад

cut into 1in cubes, use a pressure cooker, and put in a can of pineapple on top of the meat cubes so the bottom of the pressure pot doesn't scorch them. Id make pulled pork hog all the time if i had much. Add home made BBQ sauce after the pressure cooker. I make pulled pork shoulder and chili all the time, but I don't get as much wild hog pork as store pork. 55-65min in an 8qt instant pot

@beth8775 4 дня назад

So perfect for bbq?

@Springwater475 3 дня назад

You clearly haven’t had the tenderloin

@drpk6514 8 дней назад

In dumb Queensland Australia we are not allowed to fish and eat the invasive carp and tilapia because they think this would encourage people to transfer them to other places (they are everywhere).

@nicklibby3784 5 дней назад

So there solution is to do *_nothing_* and let the environment be damaged?

@Blackstar-yd3yf 4 дня назад

Australia is a police state what do you expect? Rights ?

@drpk6514 3 дня назад

@@Blackstar-yd3yf Meanwhile the savage kids destroyed our unoccupied property and the police did nothing. The neybougrs called police and took over 15 min for the police to arrive.

@DeadeyeJedi85 13 дней назад

All in all, great video, but I'm surprised, and a little disappointed, that the prevalence of Swine Brucellosis wasn't mentioned as one of the issues in eating wild hogs. My understanding is that cooking it well enough removes the risk, but given how widespread it is in wild hogs in the U.S., I would have loved to have heard more about it here.

@matteoorlandi856 10 дней назад

In Italy there Is AN out break of swine pest and yup, it's a huge problem but the politicians are too cowards to admit that the hogs must go.

@azerial 10 дней назад

Interesting. I wonder how many hunters are using ppe. Obviously the food is being cooked, so that's not the issue. The issue is for the hunters and the butchers. I am interested in what percentage cdc has detected this bacteria.

@Richard-gy1pq 11 дней назад

100% Australia has ferral invasive pests. Its crazy to not be eating these things.

@mvm5439 2 дня назад

Agreed! Since when is eatting rabbits not a good idea?

@fv6125 8 дней назад

In the Philippines, we have cane toads from Central America. The species was introduced in the Philippines in the 1930s, as a pest control method in sugar cane plantations.

@beth8775 4 дня назад

Google says cane toads are edible. Cane toad Adobo?

@crhoades555 3 дня назад

Aren’t they poisonous and hallucinogenic.

@deebarnard5439 13 дней назад

Perfectly ethical. And makes economic and ecological sense.

@okwaleedpoetry 10 дней назад

the pig, fish, even crab meat...it's all similar to what we consume now. I feel like invasive species on a insect level gets not attention

@nicklibby3784 5 дней назад

People don't want to eat insects

@NUNYABIDDY1 3 дня назад

Invasive insects get loads of attention. They are one of the primary reasons for customs and import regulations around plant materials like fruit. Nowhere wants to import somewhere else's agricultural pest.

@NUNYABIDDY1 3 дня назад

@@nicklibby3784 if they are big enough, I say why not? A big grasshopper is basically just a land prawnn. Also grasshoppers eat plants and not detritus like some of the other arthropods we eat (crabs). Folks eat crawfish that live in nasty mud, while grasshoppers just live on and around plants. So why not fry up some grasshoppers?

@richarddr1234 4 дня назад

I don't know why the title of the video even frames it as a debatable issue. It should be a no-brainer. You don't see commercially viable "invasives" become issues in 3rd world countries where people would just make use of what got imported.

@Ant86744 13 дней назад

You can have a reverse effect by allowing people to eat and hunt them for sport. People keep allowing a small amount to keep breeding for the next hunt

@NewAge374 12 дней назад

Pheasant in the UK are invasive and are gobbling up resources for native fowl as well as being less picky eaters: populations of reptiles and amphibians are at risk because of them. Still, they are bred in captivity to be released in massive quantities for sport hunters. This form of ¨outdoor sports¨ is a business and the people profitting from it wouldn't want it to go away.,

@bluesteel8376 9 дней назад

Yes, that is a down side, but there is no motivation/money to control the species if you don't allow them to be hunted.

@NewAge374 8 дней назад

@@bluesteel8376 Nonono you don't get it: they are bred solely for the purpose of being hunted for sport. When you stop the breeding (and finish off the remaining population) you're done in a few years.

@FalconfromRF 7 дней назад

And same happens if species is banned to be kept as pet.

@papajohnsdeer 12 дней назад

is it just me or is the chef a total smoke show 🥵

@Painguine 12 дней назад

they usually are

@YourPiggestFan 12 дней назад

@@Painguine amen

@azerial 10 дней назад

In my experience, in kitchens, they are SUPER hot, but with that hotness comes with a shit ton of emotional damage and baggage. You ever watched the bear, that scene where he cooks in his sleep and almost burns down his apartment? Yu

@azerial 10 дней назад

To iterate on that point, things must always be perfect, but it's life and they won't be, so it's a refire. I watched my chef use a mandolin with a tiny object, no glove. Sharpen his knife daily. Massive respect, but i think I'd have a hard time dating one that was as dedicated to the Art as he was.

@Vizible21 12 дней назад

I'm a vegetarian and these animals eat my vegetable. So I'm ok with this.

@Jude2Bechayda 6 дней назад

LMAO same

@user-yq8bz5ex8f 13 дней назад

Wow, such a nice production!!! I always looooove your videos!

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@Abevann 6 дней назад

What is a question for me is why not to? I mean, putting aside if the meat is healthy or not, daily we kill and eat tons of different kind of animals and there is no questions about do so or not...

@sandraleung7218 13 дней назад

What about the elephant in the room: feral cats and dogs? They are the most destructive invasive vertebrates, especially cats, with the highest extinction kill counts. Cats and dogs are the most challenging invaders to deal with - because people love them.

@bluesteel8376 9 дней назад

Yep, you nailed it. Because they are so loved, people won't allow them to be controlled.

@5uyog 13 дней назад

7:01 Is that guy bert from Sitcom 'the big bang theory'?

@BloodAsp 13 дней назад

I thought he had a familiar air around him that I couldn't place, and that is exactly what my subconscious was saying!

@Yataro79 12 дней назад

totally

@akuwiyadzeclifford5817 6 дней назад

This is not a question where i come from. We eat EVERYTHING!

@fishyerik 12 дней назад

Some incentive besides control/eradication alone tends to help control/eradication efforts a lot. A potential problem with incentives is when the benefit becomes so great that people start to protect it. The fishing of red king crab is regulated in Norwegian waters where it's common, which according to some sources is done to preserve a population large enough to maintain fishers interest, and that would somehow prevent further spread. There are other examples with much more severe [known] negative consequences, where the invasive species are protected by the local government, worst example that comes to mind is the Nile perch in Lake Victoria.

@SimeonRadivoev 12 дней назад

The invasive species meat market is a strategic investment target, offering exponential growth and sustainable market leadership. This sector not only ensures scalable profitability but also supports ecological balance, providing a green investment with tangible environmental impact.

@NewAge374 12 дней назад

It's only sustainable when you don't extirpate these populations. Sustainable means worthwhile in the long-term. From an environmental point of view some of these animals are a threat to ecosystems today, so the logical answer would be to remove them entirely so that the damaged habitats can recuperate. I don't know how much I have to spell it out to you but that's inherently contradictive with your ¨business¨ model

@Suburp212 12 дней назад

Are politicians considered invasive?

@Blackstar-yd3yf 4 дня назад

For sure

@hogglinebulldoggs361 7 дней назад

So most people would eat stuff grown in a lab but not a pig that lives off the land 🥴

@treefarm3288 7 дней назад

Unfortunately wild pigs (domestic pigs gone wild) are terrible in Queensland , estimated at 10 million. Its not legal to sell them for food, though. You can eat them yourself only. As was shown, hunting alerts them. Only trapping works, and it can take months to entice them into the trap. We also have large national parks, where hunting of any kind is forbidden. So they are getting worse. Thanks for covering this topic. After reading another comment I can add that Australia doesn't have any large predators which could prey on wild pigs.

@titanlurch 12 дней назад

There are tournaments for Lion fish spearfishing in the Florida Keys

@roiblack8587 13 дней назад

Hunting and eating is an option. But what about a contraceptive for those feral hogs? Could that be possible? To develop a drug which farmers and hunters could lay out, hogs would gobble them up and don´t have so many piglets any more? Because controlling them throgh hunting ain´t gonna work in the long run.

@richardhaselwood9478 11 дней назад

If you're going to go to that trouble, you'd be better off baiting. That's what we do in Australia to try and control invasive species (wild pigs, wild dogs, wild cats, etc.)

@roiblack8587 11 дней назад

@@richardhaselwood9478 One could do both and maybe that would be a real chance to get rid off those animals that do not belong.

@elmexicanoforlive 10 дней назад

Right, and lace the environment full of contraceptives and fuck up the ecosystem for other species. It’s so dumb, it’s like saying lets spray forest with roundup so we can kill invasive weed species!

@matteoorlandi856 10 дней назад

Tell me you live in a city without telling me you live in a city.

@roiblack8587 10 дней назад

@@matteoorlandi856 Yap. Big City dweller here, BUT i still something like this could be beneficial. It is NOT the silver bullet here. Hunting is obviously necessary.

@rirkc 8 дней назад

Absolutely. Why waste a perfectly good food source?

@Kar988x-zm1ug 7 дней назад

No PETA harmed in this video

@nevarran 13 дней назад

What? What kind of question is that? Of course you should eat the animals if you kill them.

@oneshothunter9877 13 дней назад

As a hunter I can nothing but agree 100%.

@Squidsqad 12 дней назад

Any way we can keep eating them without killing them?

@t.dileepak4296 11 дней назад

I'm sorry what ?

@okman9684 11 дней назад

Artificial meat

@poom323 10 дней назад

Yes 😈

@cembora4849 7 дней назад

I love how people think raising a cow in small places and killing is good but good old hunting is bad.

@Clone6385 4 дня назад

The ones we can eat yes, the ones we can’t. Fertilizer, animal feed,

@lolidasterner414 13 дней назад

Absolutely yes. Then after many years a new balance will be reached. But in order to reach balance you need small populations.

@communistpoultry 13 дней назад

human is also an invasive species.

@lolidasterner414 13 дней назад

@@communistpoultry That's why we still havent reached a balance with the environment. But we are gradually adapting.

@lolidasterner414 12 дней назад

@@SeeNickView Invasive species can't be expelled from an ecosystem. Either they will destroy it as a whole or a new predator will be created / found in order to balance the scales. In the hogs case the predator are the humans who start including in their diet the wild hog meat. In our villages in greece the population of wolves and hunters both increased as the number of hogs grew. But this adaptation takes time and in one day it will be mainstream.

@xiao2634 9 дней назад

Homo sapiens: "Invasive species impact many different ecosystem all over the world. They're super destructive, and hard to control." Also Homo sapiens, has invaded every corner of the blue planet and tries to land on the Mars. 3T: not gonna be a problem any more.

@Blackstar-yd3yf 4 дня назад

Well we took over the planet and I won't cry about beeing ontop of the foodchain

@mercce6750 5 дней назад

If we can eat invasive species, we should. Not every invasive species can be eaten and the methods to contain those have exorbitant cost already, so if we CAN consume invasive species, it would do so much more than just spending money on other, more expensive methods of containment.

@fl00fydragon 4 дня назад

I mean lack of predation IS the problem here, so having the apex predator of the planet, us humans, predate it is a viable solution.

@thomashaapalainen4108 12 дней назад

With the massive sucess of reintroducing wolfes in yellow stone there should be an effort to reintroduce wolfes were wild hogs are an issue. Obviously only in areas where wolfs have traditionally lived. Wolfs can take on prey like deer, elk, and young bison they could help greatly with the wild hogs. European wolfs would hunt the wild ansectors of these animals the North American grey wolf would easily adapt to pork chops . It would be a win win.

@GnomesRox 11 дней назад

Though wolves can kill hogs, they roam in packs and are much more formidable than those other animals with their tusks and the speed at which they breed. It just makes more sense for them to hunt what they were naturally evolved to. There's a reason why hogs are an invasive species. Relying on wolves would be extremely inefficient.

@HaNsWiDjAjA 9 дней назад

@@GnomesRoxActually wolves are the wild boar's main predator across Eurasia. A single wolf will kill 50-80 young boars in one year, so they are highly effective at keeping pig numbers in check. Wolf actually show a higher preference for pigs than other prey like deer, because of the swine's abundance, poor eyesight and slower running speed. And while adult boars are obviously dangerous and typically avoided, the wolves are perfectly happy to concentrate on piglets and subadults, which are highly vulnerable. The pack hunting behavior of wolves greatly aid then in this regard, as one wolf can easily distract the sow while the others grab the babies. Indeed the reason that pigs have evolved to have such large litters compared to other prey animals, was because their piglets were so darn vulnerable, and thus a high replacement rate was needed! Now it is true that North American wolves have never adapted to hunting pigs. But given how smart they are I am sure they can figure out how to exploit an abundant food source pretty quickly.

@Cobra_AA 8 дней назад

Trust me, if we introduce them they would be killed by humans over night because they would be scared of their cat getting eaten by a wolf

@tavish4699 5 дней назад

you have obviously never seen a pig in real life pigs are vicioous animals,especially the males no wolf is going to attach a boar

@yetufekci1 12 дней назад

By this logic, polar bear should start looking for human meat recipes 😂

@michasosnowski5918 10 дней назад

Yeah, I already pointed that out in another comment. We are the most invasive species on this planet. The damage we do is unprecedented and second place to us is far far more friendly to the environment. At least in our current numbers and the way we live unsustainably. We can be part of biodiversity, but in millions, few billions maybe as scientists say(around 2 billion), but not in 8+.

@azerial 10 дней назад

I'm sure they already have them.

@CyrilJose22 9 дней назад

Not just the polar bears!

@DrJohnnyJ 3 дня назад

There are 9.000 tigers in captivity in Texas and Texans can't think of a way to get rid of hogs.

@vectra9_957 3 дня назад

9000 tigers out of captivity would be wild for the civvies

@IndominusRex-wc1ey 3 дня назад

@@vectra9_9579000 Tigers that should also be back in Asia mind you

@omikamiz568 6 дней назад

Here in SEA, we can guarantee the effectiveness of this strategy. Now our big problem is that their number have been reduce so much that we have to make farm for them to raise their number up to meet the demand of market. And this ain't just one species but many of them too. Back then around 20-30 years ago we have trouble with Locust but now they are basically flying jumping gold mine.

@peterweller8583 13 дней назад

My two cents is YES!! and there should be prises for the best recipe. There should also be prizes for the first the biggest and the most.

@communistpoultry 13 дней назад

human is also an invasive species.

@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857 13 дней назад

@Maverick_42 really!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂 Nonsense comment..💩💩💩💩

@lharsay 10 дней назад

Only outside Africa

@adolfforlaje349 7 дней назад

Free food! They should be advertised as organic since they're not farm fed

@LunarStarFox 5 дней назад

Now I want to find a way to get wild boar meat in Colorado. I 100% agree with the points that Jesse G.made. It will help farmers keep growing plants for us to eat and if we can use invasive species as our source of protein it can help combat the environment impacts commercial meat industry.

@AWesker99 3 дня назад

They're already there.

@jamesnickelsen8563 13 дней назад

I stand with PETA! People Eating Tasty Animals. If an animal has to die, let it not be for nothing. You can keep your bugs.

@MastaTabs 13 дней назад

At some point, every species was invasive when it appeared in an ecosystem. We are, too, and we don't just let ourselves be chased away. Wild boars in particular compete with us for food and change the ecosystems on which we also depend and which we have often changed in our favor, in a way that also favors these animals. In nature, even without our intervention, better-adapted species displace less well-adapted species. If dependencies arise on both sides, an equilibrium may be established. Otherwise, only the supply of food will slow down the spread of the invasive species. If we want to assert ourselves and place value on these foods, then we must take appropriate measures. All the better if we also use the resources created in this way or leave them for other species to use. However, care must be taken to ensure that diseases do not spread as a result of the transfer.

@george2pak 5 дней назад

Hunting or fishing invasive species can definitely work, especially if there's no restrictions. In Texas, you have to pay in order to hunt wild boar. If it had been free, probably by now there would be a problem anymore. In Lake Pleasant, AZ used to be an invasion of striper bass. Once people find out that there's no limit, in about 5 years, you can't find stripper bass in the lake anymore.

@bullbae02 8 дней назад

Wild Hogs in my country are nasty since they get to garbage more than vegetation.

@sandarutharuneth 13 дней назад

I can feel the vegans

@SimeonRadivoev 12 дней назад

To be fair, humans are also technically an invasive species.

@Blaqjaqshellaq 12 дней назад

The worst of all!

@okman9684 11 дней назад

How it gets irradicated

@eklectiktoni 10 дней назад

An invasive species is a *non-indigenous* species that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment. (per wikipedia) Humans are indigenous to every continent on plant Earth.

@michasosnowski5918 10 дней назад

@@eklectiktoni Now they are. But they werent. How long does it take for a species to become indigenous? In terms of world history we are just a blink of an eye. We came from Africa and spread over the last several tens of thousand of years. And we boomed over the last few centuries, which fits wikipedia description(overpopulated and harms the environment). Right now we and livestock we keep to feed ourselves constitute over 95 % of all mammals on earth(by weight). How can you not call that invasive species?

@eklectiktoni 10 дней назад

@@michasosnowski5918 So we should all go back to Africa is what you're saying?

@beth8775 4 дня назад

Midwestern rivers are plagued by invasive carp species. They are commonly eaten in Asian countries, but trying to convince the locals here is incredibly difficult.

@Crimsonfangg 22 часа назад

What also didnt help is that we drove out mountain lions, wolves and jaguars. Im not saying they would've fully kept their numbers in check, but they certainly would've helped.

@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857 13 дней назад

Who brings these invasive species??? Ans:- Most of invasive species are brought by human. So, human are the main reason for this most of time. Stop blaming animals always....🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@CD-kg9by 13 дней назад

Nobody does. It's also stated in the video.

@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857 13 дней назад

@@katarinarosell4422 nice joke.😂😂😂

@VS-hz8fm 4 дня назад

@@deWiAnNaEnEcBi3857Nope it’s very clearly stated

@bukenyaephraim771 3 дня назад

At exactly 3:19 I was shocked for a second that the expert was literally describing Humans. We are behaving like an Invesive species. In my local language we have a proverb that translates to something like "Worms are so stupid that they infect and kill their own host" meaning that If the worms were wise, they would at least preserve their host so that they can live for longer. But the moment the host dies, so do the worms. As humans, we are behaving like clueless worms. Taking more and more from the earth than it can actually give. Sort of like the Hogs.

@bernardweaver2416 2 дня назад

Eating invasive plants and animals seems like a no brainer

@luislandino9247 5 дней назад

Very educational and fun to watch

@dudmic 7 дней назад

Hogs back legs are really good at making Jamon, being in the wild they will have a very diverse diet, so their meat is a lot less "toxic" i guess, to us than meat that comes from farmed animals with that have been feed all kinds of cheap fodder, not counting the veterinary drug treatment they get.

@natep6729 6 дней назад

i don't eat meat a lot, completely avoid beef and i support this idea. If they're invasive and are putting the ecosystem in danger, they need to be gone. A huge reason why many people go vegan is the environmental effects of animal farming and if eating these animals helps the environment, they sure can eat it.

@arvind8302 2 дня назад

The thumbnail, is exactly what the mountain lions were discussing when humans plundered their land.

@MrSeachaser175 11 дней назад

Lion fish here in St.Lucia was such a problem that local fishermen were catching them by the hundreds, now lion fish Fillets are impossible to find. 💁🏻‍♂️ However the invasive African Snail was a serious problem a few years ago, and the population of them has seriously fallen so much that’s it’s now unusual to even see one anymore, population self balancing?🤷🏼‍♂️

@Will-kt5jk 10 дней назад

1:12 - I think his definition of “western hemisphere” is basically “the americas” The UK (where the Greenwich meridian sits, so technically straddles the hemispheres, but is usually counted as “western”) had wild boar until they were hunted to extinction & have now begun reintroduction.

@truthfulpenguin 5 дней назад

In my state, Autumn Olive and Wineberries are 2 invasive plants that take over huge swaths of land if given the chance. When I lead hikes about sustainable foraging, I always make sure to mention that you should NOT harvest invasive species sustainably. Eat as many as you want, + some. Last year, we we spent about 30 minutes pigging out on more autumn olive than 8 people should ever have any business eating, and we're doing the same early summer with wineberry. Find out about invasive edible plants in your area and go demon mode on them. Jams, jellies, pies, literally anything you can think of, the world is yours.

@sownyp9980 3 дня назад

Blue crabs are an issue in the south of Catalonia, someone found out they make amazing paella. Now blue crabs are less of an issue.

@firtsnamefirstnama9797 День назад

Short answer: yes Long answer: this entire video

@user-fh3cv4li4v 12 дней назад

In my country Georgia we ate all hogs, and we miss the time when people hunting on them

@Zantides 2 дня назад

In Norway king crab is blacklisted, but if you fish it and sell it without approval you're fined like there is no tomorrow. It's a problem, but a lucerative one. Money comes first and environment secound.

@Kelvin_Foo День назад

I recognized that logo on John Tomecek's shirt, it's from a game where the main character can catch and eat any wild animals from tree frogs to alligators.

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@ultrajd 3 дня назад

Honestly, I think this is a great idea. I mean, I’m not a hunter and I love animals. But given the fact that they are an invasive species, which of course means that they are not you know supposed to be here. I think it’s a great way to get rid of them. Another thing that would probably be a great thing to do is maybe there could be a business set up where the invasive species animals can basically be turned in and the hunters could receive for lack of better term, a bounty of swords. Honestly, if I lived in an area where you know hunting for invasive animals was a thing even though I’m not a hunter I would more than willingly take part in this. And if you really think about it, you could almost consider these things and untapped resource. With all the different invasive animals, especially down in Florida. There’s a lot of money sitting there. All those various snakes and pythons and stuff. That’s an awful lot of snakeskin that can be used.

@mitchkman 10 дней назад

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@rockyhalloween1233 13 дней назад

It's the best way because it takes pressure of other species and gives them the opportunity to rebound

@tribemayamex 7 дней назад

there are videos showing helicopters doing hunting and also metal fences used as traps. one is about nets being more efficient at trapping the whole group of wild pigs. being so strong in absorbing the big hits of big adult ones. they are smart at being able to escape from some metal fences.

@jaysonparkhurst7422 6 дней назад

Pork meat is the best quality protein as far as amino acid balance and your body's ability to digest them

@TheTrumpReaper День назад

I live in California and there are feral pigs _everywhere._ Up north there are feral nutria as well. There's a company (I have forgotten in which state) that turns invasive species meat into dog and cat food, which is another practical use for them. Anyhow, weren't feral pigs imported into CA by deadbrains who wanted to eat them?

@joesmith201212 День назад

Damn that lady got the lego haircut

@Fledermausmann 8 дней назад

I'm all for this. It probably has to be large scale though that would come with its own problems. Also, most invasive species are pretty delicious, hence why they were introduced in the first place. And frankly, if marketed properly, this could be big big business.

@onlinealiasuk 3 дня назад

The more food can be taken from hunting the less farmland we need the wilderness can be left

@user-ub1gz8lx8c 5 дней назад

They are coming up into Canada now as well. They are so tough they can survive the winters.

@douglasmcneil8413 2 дня назад

Louisiana - nutria, Florida - python, Texas - hog. All are edible.

@nidohime6233 21 час назад

An issue that can cause by fomenting the comsuption of invasive species is it would create a incentive for unscrupulous people. A famous example is in India, when the goverment payed a fee for any cobra caught the wild population of snakes lowered its numbers, but that made people start many cobra farms for profit, and when the demand stopped there where way more cobras than there used to. Is important to watch out for this incidents if we want to avoid a similar disaster.

@doct1400 3 дня назад

We live in a country where there is no shortage of people who just want to shoot stuff and they are telling me we can't put some of that money we waste on the military saying "Okay Bobby. You are going to get a room, board a base pay of 1k for this month (which is military pay. . .from 2001 for an E1 or close enough) and you get paid per head. Have at it hoss!