Originally Posted By: Kruse
Reading some of these posts and I had to chuckle.
First off, hogs in the wild are called feral hogs and they SHOULD be eaten by coyotes. (Coyotes or wolves are no match for feral hogs, but I digress) Feral hogs have no natural predators and if you've seen the damage that feral hogs do, you know why the land owners hire pilots to fly over with helicopters and a sniper to shoot the pigs. If a human would come across a pack of wild pigs and a sow thought that a piglet would be be in danger, the pack could kill a human in seconds. Second, 99% of all pork sold in the grocery store is pork raised in confinement buildings. The floors are concrete and the walls for these pigs are concrete or pipe. For these pigs, they cannot dig so you would never put a hog ring in the nose of one of these pigs. Hog rings were for pigs that were raised on dirt and stopped them from digging. Very few pigs are raised on dirt and the ones that are are being raised by farmers that have a customer base that wants organic pork or because the pork raised on dirt tastes better.
As a kid, we raised pork (on dirt) and we did use hog rings on a few of the larger sows or boars. Would you put hog rings in your dog or cat's nose? Of course not. It is cruel. It would be like doing surgery on a human with no anesthesia.
Organic grass fed and non corn finished meat is so superior to the feed lot garbage they call meat
Reading some of these posts and I had to chuckle.
First off, hogs in the wild are called feral hogs and they SHOULD be eaten by coyotes. (Coyotes or wolves are no match for feral hogs, but I digress) Feral hogs have no natural predators and if you've seen the damage that feral hogs do, you know why the land owners hire pilots to fly over with helicopters and a sniper to shoot the pigs. If a human would come across a pack of wild pigs and a sow thought that a piglet would be be in danger, the pack could kill a human in seconds. Second, 99% of all pork sold in the grocery store is pork raised in confinement buildings. The floors are concrete and the walls for these pigs are concrete or pipe. For these pigs, they cannot dig so you would never put a hog ring in the nose of one of these pigs. Hog rings were for pigs that were raised on dirt and stopped them from digging. Very few pigs are raised on dirt and the ones that are are being raised by farmers that have a customer base that wants organic pork or because the pork raised on dirt tastes better.
As a kid, we raised pork (on dirt) and we did use hog rings on a few of the larger sows or boars. Would you put hog rings in your dog or cat's nose? Of course not. It is cruel. It would be like doing surgery on a human with no anesthesia.
Organic grass fed and non corn finished meat is so superior to the feed lot garbage they call meat