Most of those pigs are, by western standards, inedible. With the exception of the very young adults (and the piglets), their meat is tough and has a very objectionable gamer/musty/garbage-y flavor.
Texas is contending with a similar problem, and if Texans can’t find a way to eat them, you know that meat is worthless.
Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.
There are also toxins to worry about. Many toxins bioaccumulate.
Wild animals spend most of their waking hours looking for and chewing food (and humans labored under the same constraint till they invented cooking); even when they can tell there is something wrong with some food, they usually cannot afford to reject it.
Toxins are present in a lot of farmed 100%-grass-fed meat, too. I stick mostly with 100%-grass-fed lamb raised in New Zealand or Australia and won't eat grass-fed buffalo anymore even if it were free.
Cooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
A cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts.
In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)
Obviously food irradiation is done at specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills, not at home. Here's a clue for you: it's already the case that most hunters don't process their own meat.
> That's plainly nuts.
You're the one who said it, so right back at you buddy. Stop pulling absurdities out of your ass and attributing them to other people to have something to disagree with.
Not sure if your average family-owned deer processor would want a gamma source with all the required safeguards in their facility. And they'd have to get it past the customers too, there's going to be resistance with at least some of them.
A friend from school, his parents owned a butcher shop where they killed and butchered their own hogs (not beef, beef would have been to large for the facility). If anyone had asked him what he wanted - irradiation or inspection plus proper treatment of the meat (boil, fry or hot-smoke) the reply would have been unequivocal and loud.
> specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills
Have you ever met a hunter? They do not send their kills to "specialized processing facilities" they send their kills to their buddy Jim who butchers it in his shed. Maybe they know a commerical butcher that will do it for them, and even then it's the butcher down the road. Specialized processing facilities, that's hilarious.
My office at home will quickly go over 2000 and then 3000ppm if I keep the door and window closed. It sucks in winter because I basically have to keep the window open(and be cold) if I want to have the privacy of a closed door.
It did make me realize why I was feeling sleepy and not quite so focused after long period of time in that room, so getting a CO2 sensor was great in that sense. I also stopped closing the door to our bedroom - CO2 levels would easily go over 2500ppm overnight if you left the door closed.
If you own your home, you could install a ventilation system with an air-to-air heat exchanger with the outside... that way you at least reduce the heating loss. Or you install a forced ventilation towards whatever adjacent room there is, with a foam mesh to pad down on sounds.
Why? You can have a simple indoor exchange for under a hundred dollars - a simple bathroom fan for 20€ would be a starter if you don't mind its noise, but stuff like axial fans for pot growers is pretty cheap as well (e.g. [1]). That, a 100mm core drill and a fairly simple mechanical 230V switch on the door should be enough.
Because labour is crazy and I don't feel comfortable doing this myself. I've recently had a basic AC unit installed at home, it was £500 for the hardware and then another £1000 on top of that for the installation. I imagine that exchange fan would be at least £1000 installed and I just don't have a grand laying around spare to do this.
Yeah, AC units do require a lot of specialized labor to install (in some jurisdictions, it actually may even be mandated by law)... but a simple fan? That's half an hour for the drill, half an hour for the electrician and that's it.
A major part of passive aggression is being subtle with hostility to avoid being exposed. If anything calling it out is poetic justice, but you’re welcome to just let it happen.
That all sounds great, but you’d better be sure about the “causes of criminal behavior.” Not everyone agrees on that, and as such, you might be unpleasantly surprised at what ultimately gets “attacked.”
