Why Don’t They Eat Millions of Snakes in USA?

Bones are not the issue; carp are a muddy distasteful fish.

All fish have bones. Americans love fish, at least fish that taste good.

Good, they’re pests. If some people can make some cash getting rid of destructive wild hogs then even better! Texas has a gigantic wild hog problem. Seen some videos showing the destruction they cause to crops and the land. Was surprised at how destructive just a few can be, can’t imagine what thousands can do. Props to your friends for trying to take care of this problem.

I live in Germany. Here wild boar are hunted and consumed. They actually taste like good quality 'standard' pork. Before I stopped eating pork for religious reasons, I ate them too. Better to eat them than to waste them I guess.

Would totally buy their meat

I'm not trying to be a hater or any kind of conspiracy but I wonder why the USDA once them delivered alive is it to put some kind of antibiotic or who-knows-what maybe testing I'm just curious but I love the idea selling their they're me its really good especially the bacon

@@estevan4928 probably disease testing plus if they do find something they would have the information of where the hog came from to know for later(sick herds spreading disease and such).

andrew was a cat 5 when it hit homestead.

sooo true im born and raised in Palm beach Island..

To say _all_ snakes were swept inland is a bit of a stretch.

Yep the book Charlotte's Web is a good intro to this. The family's a farming family, they bought a piglet in the spring, the "runt" so it was cheaper, and the pig (Wilbur) got the family's leftover food each day along with general animal feed. This is what people would often do. You got a piglet and thus had an animal to feed your food scraps to, the pig would grow through the year, then around Christmas or so, you'd slaughter the pig and have had your year's worth of food scraps turned into delicious pork. Of course this didn't happen in Charlotte's Web because it was a story for Boomers and Boomers are scared by reality.

We from Africa lack this free meat. If we have this opportunity, we will not eat anything else except wild pig meat...

​@@elvisroyfm5888pigs are unclean and eat even dead bodies. You do not need this type of meat there.

Pay attention , the wild pigs are not for eating. 🤮

NVM you R j/k L😂L

@@icosthop9998 wild pigs are actually delicious 😋

@@babuksr7525 In this video they warn against eating them.

@@icosthop9998 Because the grocery store is open. I said when the grid goes down.

A slippery slope that one. Some folks won't know where to draw that line.

@@pixpusha I agree, and it is weird too. Many people need food, and ..... geeze, such a weird thing to do!!!

@@pixpusha the dead pigs came from a hog farm operation. The operation is massive, imagine about a mile or more road with four large buildings holding hogs. Every set of buildings is 200 yards apart all along this stretch of road. And the sets of four buildings also go a quarter of a mile back on both sides of the road. We’re talking about millions of hogs. Some of the hogs are going to die accidentally, and the carcasses are placed outside away from the buildings. Truck stops by to pick up carcasses and haul them to the plant. But that’s not all they do. They also collect all the excrement and run it through a treatment program before mixing it big field with top soil used as fertilizer. So they make bacon, electricity, and fertilizer.

that is gross. feral pigs?

Master Blaster run Barter town vibes

That's really fascinating. Keep them on it long term till they die out. Imagine if they adapt to counter that. Pigs are amazing animals

Not so funny thing is there's cottonseed oil in a whole bunch of America's foods. Listen up guys!

Cotton seeds ? That sounds really fascinating . I wonder what's in there that acts like a contraceptive, especially in males . Something like estrogen, like in beer or soy products ? I think I found another rabbit hole to go down.... Edit: spelling mistake, though there are likely more.

They should create a virus, or a genetic mutation. Then let the hogs go into the wild.

​​@@racewayrenee8428 the gossypol is removed during the refining process of the oil. (Most of it anyway)

No shit, i always wondered what was going on with the pork sometimes. Thanks

Not eating snakes or insects. What are they going to suggest next, Soylent Green?

You should post up a video, maybe Americans can learn from it.

Thanks for the intel. 🙏🇮🇳❤✨

@@leeyang5763 Americans have a very bad habit of thinking they can handle it their way only to bring about global ruin.

have to give that a try

cashew nuts is a high priced item in the USA, maybe use acorns instead, Iberian pigs are fed on acorns.

I’m so sorry about your dogs. 🐾

Damn. Im up here in Central Louisiana and was working for a tree service. Me and the boss man was coming from a quote on a job and come around a curve and hit 2 big hogs going 50. We got out to load em up and I swear 20 freaking hogs come out the woods and tried to attack us. They was wanting to eat the 2 dead hogs. We hauled our butts with the one we loaded up and got back to town and the damn hog came back to life (boss had put one in its skull earlier with 22) and jumped out the damn truck going 50mph. Them things are hard to kill and very aggressive.

Theyre going ham XD

They're hogging everything to themselves xd

Yep, that's where my sons took me hog hunting.

Because you wanted to or had to? My dad did survival training with the Air Force in Puerto Rico and they were given no food and they caught snakes and ate it and he said it was food but nothing he wanted to eat again

That is why they called marines in Viet Nam snake eaters

Thats a MYTHE IT DOES NOT!!!!! TASTE ANYTHING LIKE CHICKEN THATS BEEN DEBUNKED

The reason most people wont eat fresh water fish like carp is because they're bottom cleaners basically so they are considered "dirty" I've ate carp farmed from a pond and it was surprisingly good if you dont mind the bones

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Shit man try turkey lol its a way better option. My wife hates that I love it so much but carp for Christmas I might fight somebody over that lol joking

Very cool! Thanks for that cultural nugget. Been to Europe 6 or 7x but never made it that far east though not for lack of trying.

@@shxmanaCrustaceans are bottom feeders too, yet they are the tastiest animals and are considered delicacy almost worldwide.

eat nothing but boar for a couple week and I guarantee you'll be sick of it.

@@phileas007 for sure u need to eat something else as well 😂

barbecue city

Imagine the dog was also rabid

Depends on the type of dog?

And how did it taste?

She died of natural causes at around 15. Sometimes food becomes your friend and you just roll with it. She was special.@@spectrelayer

I hope that my attempt at humor was not too acerbic. @@greendrewgreen1

98% of Texas is privately owned and the owners bitch about the hogs but won’t let hunters in ( for some good reasons ) unless they are paid big bucks.

Cook it well done and it will be fine. I find it better than farm pork and their fat is thin and tasty.

It's still easy to get a disease. We don't need inexperienced people preparing and eating it. That's how you get another epidemic.

probably cos big agri will lose out on a lot of money

This video says that feral hogs have a lot of diseases. Some can even be contracted from handling the carcasses.

Yeah I heard about the pagpag problem.

Yeah and no, and if you think the money hunters pay to kill and pose with a dead elephant, or lion, etc. goes to “preserving the animals”…that is fairly naive. Of course they say that, but mainly, the money goes into the pockets of people arranging the hunt, with only a token amount to conservation. And I am fine with hunting if it’s a clean kill, and if the meat is used, and the population is too large for the food supply, and done in the right season and the right age/gender is culled, etc…..but that is a lot of “ifs” ….and doubt those are done most of the time. Even if the hunter wants to, they will eventually miss and end up with a buck running off with a cross bow embedded in its shoulder, to slowly die of infection in pain, with the meat only used by scavenger animals, who were going to get it anyway. And can’t prove it, but I suspect only a minority of hunters use the meat to eat, and either leave the carcass after taking pics and maybe the horns, or stick it in their freezer for years, before throwing it out due to “freezer burn.” And don’t think there is any hard evidence that “fresher” meat improves people’s health, and wild animals are teeming with parasites that can be transmitted to people, including through meat and it’s processing.

​@@Itried20takennames ​I assure you most hunters eat their kill.

@@Itried20takennames​​⁠​⁠I’ve been surrounded by hunters my whole life. The game wardens are on people all the time checking permits and kills. so hunters are very particular about their kills. And if it’s too much meat, they have people to give it to. If a hunter makes a bad shot, most will hike for hours to find the animal. And they will practice aiming far more so it doesn’t happen again. Hunting also helps keep populations healthy by mixing up the gene pools. Predators generally take the sick, old, and young. You do a lot of assuming.

​​​@@Itried20takennamesyoure assuming so much its painful. just about everything you said is false. you assume most hunting is trophy hunting, which isnt true. if done legally, yes, it goes into much needed conservation efforts, and helps keep the population in check. most people eat or share their kills, and the amount of animals they can kill is heavily regulated. harvesting yout own protein is also far more environmentally and ethically friendly than eating mass farmed meat. its much better for the environment than if no one hunted. also, even trophy hunting is good sometimes, as it clears up older males whose presence is not needed, allowing younger males to have a chance. you should probably look into the benefits of hunting more, *you* seem naive.

You can’t poach a pig. They are fair game to all.

The chicken is industrialized. Thats why they use as the food

Feral pig meat MUST be cooked or the lions have a much larger chance of getting diseases. So the lions would actually need a chef lol.

​@@vannarooski8730lol lions can eat it fine. 😂😂 They were born to eat wild.

In my experience when pig carcasses are left "exposed" the wildlife doesn't seem to be real interested in consuming. A zoo animal that had no choice might eat them but the coyotes and buzzards left them laying. Bears weren't interested either.

@@patfal1514 I rescued three Pumas because some ass hat hunter shot their mother and I fed them wild hog sometimes. Also fed them chicken, turkey, beef, dear, elk, and fish too, which is why I figured that might work.

Same here

What? Carp or wild pigs?

Earlier this year I was out for a late night drive & spotted a group of ~10 (adults & piglets) walking through a nearby neighborhood (Houston Tx suburb). I was tempted to try taking one with a bow I had in my car, but it was a residential area (know beyond your target) & I didn’t want to risk the group charging me with just my bow (~16 arrows all with field/target points). I think I saw a news video about them on security cameras later that week. Ps: I’m 24, started hog hunting ~14, seen many hogs hunting farm land north of Houston

@@joelangelsanchez1581 Can a person grain feed the wild taste out of them, like cattle?

@@kramnull8962 yes. It’s recommended. Takes some time and proper nutrition, water etc

Well that sucks. I hope that eventually changes for you.

*"How to kill feral pigs?"* Has anyone thought about systematically flooding pig-infested farmland, and then purposefully electrocuting it with a high voltage electricity??? The conductive mineral, especially with the pigs plowing and upturning the soil could help with the electric-conductivity! 🐗☠️⚡

@@Human_01 electric fences are ban, if they find 1kg meat in ur fridge then police can arrest you..

​@@MrSam-mg5uthow did such a stupid law get passed? Or people poaching desirable animals and they just wrote legislation that covered all animals?

@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape They are protected under the Wildlife Protection. From last few years govt allows to kill hogs, however, you need a permit and a gun. Follow strict law. It is a mess. The Small farmers cannot follow the protocol. It is not easy. You need a one year permit which takes a lot of effort to obtain.

Some UK places have put signs up along the canals 'No Carp Fishing' with a pictogram man running away with a carp under the arm. This is because certain diversity groups are taking them to eat.

@@terencejay8845it would be a good idea if carp fishing was permitted, and the British eating them alongside the immigrant groups, as it would reduce the dependency on sea fish.

There aren't that many in the canals. It's stocked as a sport fish. There are anglers up and down the canal system and using carp as edibles would wipe out the stocks in weeks. @@michaelhaywood8262

They're omnivores...they would have no problem eating you.

I’m from Houston Tx and I started learning to hunt hogs at ~13 years old. Typically I see wild hogs when I help a couple farmers hunt their land (~1.5 hours north of Houston), but earlier this year I was out for a late night drive (insomnia) & saw a group of ~10 in a suburb across the freeway from my house. There was even a news report with security camera footage of the destroying a year’s & squaring up with a car….absolutely insane “little” beasts!!!

Wow... so why are American homeless people hungry 😂

If was me, I'd eat them all

@@LimeLivesMatter Pull a cow fresh off the pasture and butcher it up and eat it. A cow will keep the wild onion in her meat for more than a week, even taken off the pasture and fed grain. They need about 2 weeks, especially in the spring. That onion taste is the least of your worry in a hog. Most people cannot eat the cow's meat, fresh off the pasture.

There’s plenty it just gets destroyed on purpose

Joe Biden and crew have declared 100% war on humanity. The extreme storms and heat are no accidents either. We know they can manipulate weather. Anyone who isn`t aware of this scientific fact is living in ignorance deliberately.

yep! the meat of wild hogs is more tasty than regular pigs

That's the government working on being the only food supplier. They have ruled and lawed many small farmers out of business that means there are less people to control over food, watch and they will soon make it illegal to grow you own gardens. They will say because they are selling it to others.

@@baneverything5580 get serious now, blaming Joe Biden for everything that's wrong in the world is getting pretty damn tiresome. Just put a sock in it will you?

Isn't that usually the way of this stuff? " Experts", lol

My Indian dude I'm from Serchhip, Misoram, India

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They're not uncontrollably doing anything they're in full control. They're doing this cuz they need it.

@@DarkCelestialConsciousness🤓

Not for everyone! You can even see their destination on the human body; I hunt wild hogs & have seen what they can do to a person.

We want to save them because they easily go extinct

Because the ones that can tolerate our presence are the ones that can take advantage of our resources, our farmland and homes, and breed quickly enough, so we see them as a nuisance. While the ones that don't take advantage of the resources humans provide are struggling with the loss of their habitat. Basically humans replace wilderness with farmland, but then we get annoyed when the animals adapt to us, and sad when they can't adapt to us and go extinct. Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Survival of the fittest . Prey that is weak or overwhelmed and outnumbered have always had the hardest time. Circle of life and nature.

Lol!!

I eat all fish after living in Asian countries. I don't understand what US Americans have against carp (and lots of other fish as well). They taste good. Pretty much all fish tastes good, as far as I have tried, and is also permissible in most religions and cultures.

Hilsa fish? What would you say it tastes like the most?

@@sydneyjane777 carp don’t taste like anything. At least in the US they have no flavor. Could be the difference in diet.

@@ethanclarke4127 here in india and rest of Asia, carp doesn't eat human waste that's for sure , so yeah maybe diet difference 😂

@@YamaXI I search the the English term for a fish that taste similar to hilsa, and the Google came up with the name "indian glass barb" fish, so yea I can't really think of any other fish that tastes similiar. But in term of stature u can think hilsa as the culinary peak of Indian state of Bengal and the country of Bangladesh.

Hey, bud! Greeneville over here, how ya livin'? You are 100% on the preferable taste to mainstream farmed pork. The wild hog taste is very similar to the way we used to raise and process our own pork from back in my youth, around 40 years ago. Modern pork bought from grocery stores has much of the fat(and by consequence taste) bred out of it for the sake of eating healthy.

Really? I've had wild boar and it tastes... really gamey.

@@cal4111 You should try the female of the species. As with most meats, the testosterone can ruin the flavor. This is the reason that pigs raised for slaughter way back were "clipped" long before their "end date" to avoid this problem.

@@LarsonPettysmall world I'm in Greeneville too. I'd rather eat the wild too and yep testosterone definitely adds to the gamey.

This guy has an epic voice

Diligence!?!? He included shots of Polar Bears and Penguins in his piece about Antarctica!! Muppet….

smart

did that stop the probem or just delay it?

@@Dave-ty2qp I would say that it worked. It takes time to dig holes so if there escapes are lined with knives and they decide not to go in, they will all get picked off easily by the farmer.

There are only so many open fields in that peninsular, and in the forestry running down the mountain spine are a lot of feral pigs, turkeys, geese, goats and even some wild peacocks. The farm runs beef cattle, and one of the things the pigs do is go around the two or three day old cow-flops, because they always have a lot of worms under them ( the more you know ) So, no, the pigs kept coming, I know because the farm has some cottages along the shore, that they lease out to fishermen. My older brothers have been using one of them for 25 or 30 years, so the farm family lets them hunt on the farm. A young Peacock is actually reasonable good eating it turns out. Some of the paddocks have small creeks that run up into the mountains, the creek sides are heavily grown with scrub. I was there once, on the shore beside one of the creeks, and someone fired a shotgun up further in the farm, and 11 pigs barrelled out of the other side of the creek and up over the hill away from me. They had been laying up in the scrub for the afternoon, and listening to me walk along the beach, and thought I might start shooting. So if there were 11, and those were just the oones I could see, you can't see anything LIKE the whole of any of the paddocks because of how hilly the farm is ( and they were just the ones who panicked and ran, there are always pigs and other ferals that are cautious and don't run, so maybe there were another 11 laying still ) in just one of the creek-beds, and the farm has about a dozen creeks . . . In wet weather, the pigs get into paddock after paddock and just destroy the pasture, it honestly has to be seen to be believed how much grass and turf a dozen pigs will root up in one night. I am trying to think of an analogy for the damage . . . it looks like some demented bulldozer with a broken blade has gone mad. @@Dave-ty2qp

They call that bleeding like a stuck hog. But trust me, from an old hog farmer, nothing short of a good shot from a rifle/firearm is going to stop them. Swine, in general, are the toughest animal on the North American Continent. I've seen hogs, and even pigs, that have suffered injuries that would have killed any other animal I can think of, and a year later, I couldn't hardly find a scar. And they don't call them 'pig headed' for nothing. The only way you will keep hogs out of your fields, is to provide them a better feed source, or kill them off. 🙋🐷

Pretty sure this guy is just anti-gun

Easier to kill and breed slower

​@@TheAkdzyn ... Then how come "bread" is not extinct? Care to explain it? 🤔🤔🥖✨

Or the native bison (or buffalo)

I live in Charleston so I’ve never seen a feral hog here. I saw a lot in Florida. May I ask where you saw them in WVA?

Hunters that can afford time off work and gear to hunt them are rich kids. Rich kids are lazy and not work a fuck at getting problems solved. The guy sitting in the truck on the phone at the jobsite is the guy that can afford to hunt.

@@FLORIDAMANIAM-he2lzlol

Unaccountable bureaucracy abounds

Except the video title says snakes, but it’s talking about pigs…. Not sure how that’s smart and relevant?

actually he gets a lot of things wrong. don’t just believe everything you hear..

Are you out at night looking in the bushes?

@@squirrel670 not that often anymore. But even so, there should be some signs of them and we just haven't seen that here yet. We're covered up in farms, so one would expect to hear of raided gardens and fields.

@@michaelhowell2326 google says there is 100k of em and they're most active early morning or late evening. They're present in 81/100 counties so you may be lucky. Hunting on them is open season

Wow that's crazy

Are you being serious??

And this is why Australia doesn't want to allow people to import or keep exotic species. Only a matter of time before they end up in the wild and causing enormous harm to the local species and even to communities. Imagine an invasion of venomous snakes. It would not be pretty.

King Cobras eat pythons, so maybe leave them around. Very very venomous but their main prey is other snakes.

Didn’t Australians with machine guns lose a “war” to unarmed (literally) emus….. Also, I’ve seen videos of people shooting hogs with full auto rifles & machine guns from helicopters & barely make a dent in the population…..if you guessed Texas, you’d be correct!

pigs make up to 10 piglets if you shoot the leading pig the population explodes as she kinda tells the others when to make kids and when not

When the Democrats and uniparty accomplish their goal of collapsing society. The hogs are going to be pretty much the only thing will be able to eat. Besides each other that is.

Are you shure that's feral pigs, and not wild boar?

I don't know for feral pigs, but wild boars in a zoo just dig the concrete of their fence, which has to be remade every spring. So not sure you can easily fence them.

my grandpa, a farmer mixed glass shards into the concrete of his pig's den! They can't bite or scratch through this material. And the rats can't do either, to come in and feed on the pigs' food!

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We are the invasive species in the case of the former

@@rohanpravin5031 we still are an invasive species.

Exactly. Also we almost wiped out whales. Hunting is a good way to reduce the wild pig population.

Don't use seed oils, those are pretty toxic. Try traditional fats like beef tallow, ghee or coconut oil.

@@dutyofcall7659 ? How about corn oil, canola oil, etc.

Good. That means you're not buying into that idea because its comforting, it makes you feel good, but actually care more if its a good idea, a right idea, or a bad/false one. More or less what science is about and its the best way we've found to obtain results, so all i can say is good for you keep on trying maybe eventually you'll invent a figurative light bulb

Someone else recommended making/editing a deseas to target hogs…..My thought was, “DONT DO THAT!!!! That’s how you make everything worse; super resistant hogs or super disease.” Hogs punch holes in most of my ideas for their population control, especially learning to avoid traps. I’ll keep doing what I can by hunting wild hogs & stocking my freezer with eatable wild pork.

*"How to kill feral pigs?"* Has anyone thought about systematically flooding pig-infested farmland, and then purposefully electrocuting it with a high voltage electricity??? The conductive mineral, especially with the pigs plowing and upturning the soil could help with the electric-conductivity! 🐗☠️⚡

I say the same thing. Even alligator.

And they soak up led too from there food

@@terrencejones308 I only read it , but I'd rather prefer alligators before snakes - because one bone and I am 🤢🤮. It's a reflex, though I know cartilage or a bone can't harm be if I detect it before swallowing. I think I had some sort of bad experience in my early childhood. I can't even eat fish anymore, though I'd like to 1 or 2 times a year ....Walleye smells so good with a bit of citrus and potatoes.... But I will ALWAYS find at least 3 fishbones . Even in the kid's fried sticks. ( I also only eat chicken every 3 months and beef twice a year - only made by my Mom on New Years Eve- if I sum it up. Oh and maybe an egg or two every 4 - 5 months . )

@@janedoex1398 that's good. I never had snake but I've had alligator. I wish I can slow down on the meats and eat more varieties of fruits and vegetables.

Why would snakes have mercury in them?

You just have to know how to butcher & prepare wild hog meat correctly, which goes for any wild animal. You can Google the correct procedure for slaughtering/butchering just about any animal. Look up "Louisiana wild meat cooking" channels for some good recipes, & there's a few old recipe books from LA that are still treasured today.

@@NaomiSims-id2vn Old editions of Joy of Cooking have instruction for preparing squirrels, bears, raccoons and opossum. New editions don't. Mine is at least 30 years old.

Iguanas? 😮

I call my South American friends for the iguanas. Huge ones.

how do you cook um?

And traditionally in Japan, salmon was not eaten raw. Traditionally it's eaten at breakfast and cooked very well.

Sushi was never fancy to begin with if you knew the history.......youde seem less ignorant when you write .....if you did some reading first.

@@bitkrusher5948 I meant there was definitely a time where it became increasingly popular to eat sushi ( in the west), not that it is a fancy dish in on itself. Around the same time when more and more food delivery apps popped up and were heavily advertised and when more and more "influencers" posted every cracker they ate in a day , decorated with sesame seeds and watercress....

@@alexcarter8807 I didn't know that, thank you , I learned something new.

Buffalo fish here in America have the tiny bones like carp. If you filet the meat off, then slice through the skin and rip the meat into chunks, you can then fry it and pull the meat off the bones. During the Great Depression men would catch thousands of pounds of carp and buffalo and the women would can them. This softened the bones. Churches distributed the canned fish to those who needed food.