Captive-bred wild boar meat sells for up to 50 yuan per catty. However, in the United States, wild boars are flooded, the number once exceeded the 6 million mark, so that Americans are very troubled, according to the United States Department of Agriculture estimates, wild boars cause economic losses of up to 1.5 billion US dollars a year, it is clear that wild boars have become a major public nuisance in the United States.
This made us laugh and cry and joke: Wouldn't it be better to just catch wild boars and eat them? Why doesn't the United States catch them and eat them?
American wild boar.
Much like the rabbit epidemic in Australia, wild boars in the Americas are actually alien species, first appearing in North America in the 16th century.
As an omnivorous animal, wild boar eats vegetarian and meat, basically eats everything, and the ability of wild boar to adapt to the environment and fecundity are very strong (female wild boars produce 2 litters per year, generally 12-26 per litter), coupled with the existence of no natural predators, American wild boars breed rapidly in the Americas, and the number is increasing.
From Texas to California and other coastal areas, it has taken centuries for wild boars to form an extremely large herd in the United States.
Nowadays, the American wild boar has been flooded in the United States, with a total number of more than 6 million, and with the increase in the number of wild boars, it has also brought a series of social problems, such as wild boars stealing farm crops, destroying forest and grassland vegetation, attacking pedestrians and residents, destroying public facilities, etc., so the US government has to invest about 1 billion US dollars every year, equivalent to 7 billion yuan to manage wild boars.
For Chinese foodies, it can be said that there is nothing that cannot be solved by eating, even if it is a rampant animal, it can be eaten to extinction.
As we all know, the demand for pork in China is very large, almost every household will eat it, and there are even many people who prefer to eat some wild boar.
Why doesn't the United States eat wild boars?
- Eating Xi problems in Americans.
For Americans, pork is not the only option compared to beef and chicken, Americans prefer to eat beef and chicken, and the pork sold in American supermarkets is also artificially raised, not wild boar;
- The American way of cooking is relatively simple.
Under normal circumstances, when eating meat in the United States, most of them are fried or fried, or they eat barbecue, on the other hand, in China, in addition to frying and roasting, you can also stew, boil, stew, braised meat, etc., and the cooking methods are diversified.
There are more delicious choices for food, and for us, pork is a treasure, and pig's trotters are also a delicacy, but in many countries in Europe and the United States, animal feet and offal are not eaten, because they think these things are dirty.
- Wild boars have relatively high combat effectiveness and are not easy to catch.
The wild boar is a very ferocious animal, its running speed is also very fast, a body of tendon meat, rough skin and thick meat, sometimes bullets can not penetrate its skin, and the temperament is fierce, destructive is very strong, often live in a group way.
Once one of the wild boars is attacked, the other wild boars will not only not run away, but will also besiege the hunter, so that the hunter is injured or even killed, so generally people who do not have rich hunting experience will not be able to catch wild boars, on the contrary, there will be personal safety problems.
- The influence of religious factors.
Americans eat much more beef and lamb than pork, in part because American religion was transmitted from Europe.
Therefore, most people in the United States are Christians, and in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, it is clearly stipulated that believers are not allowed to eat animals with hoofs but not ruminants, including pigs, camels, rabbits and other animals.
- The United States is cheap in terms of living goods.
As a developed country, agriculture and animal husbandry in the United States are all large-scale farms or breeding farms, and it can be said that each family generally has a small farm and pasture, which not only has a relatively high social production efficiency, but also has relatively abundant living materials and relatively cheap prices.
Beef is a meat for ordinary income families, and although pork is also cheaper, pork is at the same price as beef, so more people will naturally choose beef.