(January 14, 2016 at 8:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No, they'd be dead. We hunt the ones that stray from their pens for reasons unrelated to dinner. Badass motherfuckers, pigs (much respect...lol)....and If it weren't for us I'd give them the best shot at survival in our absence....but we aren't absent. In the absence of production pigs are a nuisance, much like wolves or mountain lions....and we see what's happened to them. A vegetarian world would not abide their existence any more than our omnivorous world already does...which is not at all. They're a liability.
Good points all. I did mean without human interference, but that's not really feasible, as you said.
When I was a kid, we sometimes had as many as a couple of hundred pigs on the place at the same time, and you're right - the ones that went feral were killed out of hand.
Boru
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