Submitted by PeterDTown t3_10eygxf in nottheonion
kevinds t1_j4u24d8 wrote
>Alberta’s strategy incentivizes hunting directly, offering to pay hunters $75 per set of ears.
Fuck!
Please no! No no no.. Just no. Bad bad bad.. Fuck
Dimako98 t1_j4u2n5a wrote
Don't worry, it won't work. People in the US machine gun them from helicopters, poison them, trap them, blow them up with tannerite, hunt them... It's all hopeless. They reproduce faster than we can kill them.
kevinds t1_j4u6855 wrote
>Don't worry, it won't work.
Don't worry about what?
I know it won't work. Paying 'per head' never works.
There are always people who breed them to collect money.
Someone will know of a herd of them, and then they watch them, turning a few at a time, rather than taking the whole heard, as a money making operation..
Or as the company in the article is doing, raising them to invite 'hunters' to pay to hunt them.
Perverse Incentive aka The Cobra Effect
>When the British ruled India, bureaucrats in Delhi grew concerned about the proliferation of cobras in the city. To get the problem under control, authorities offered a bounty on cobra skins. This economic incentive worked well – too well, as it turned out.
>Soon cobras were being slain willy-nilly, and the government was pleased with its bounty program. However, several enterprising Indians heard the knock of opportunity in the cobra’s hiss. These opportunists began breeding cobras for their skins.
>And so it wasn’t long before the British were up to their knickers in cobra skins. When officials discovered the scam, they withdrew the bounty. But that’s not the end of the story.
>With the bounty program cancelled, innumerable cobra breeders in Delhi were stuck with, shall we say, “excess inventory.” The herpetological bubble had burst, and their erstwhile cash cobras had become lethal liabilities. So the breeders set their vipers free. And once again, Delhi had a cobra problem – only worse than before.
>Fort Benning, Georgia was having a problem with feral pigs. The Army offered hunters a bounty of $40 for every pig tail turned in. People began buying pig tails from butchers and slaughterhouses at “wholesale” prices, then “reselling” the tails to the Army at the higher bounty price.
willstr1 t1_j4vj7t4 wrote
I doubt this will cause the cobra problem. First off there are already a lot of people raising hogs, they are called pig farmers so it's not like it will cause an industry to appear that wouldn't/shouldn't exist otherwise. Second while I am not a pig farming expert I doubt a full hog is worth less than $75 so at worst this may get exploited by existing pig farmers as just a little extra profit per pig but it's not like sketchy farming subsidies are new either.
hour_of_the_rat t1_j4ubw9r wrote
>Or as the company in the article is doing, raising them to invite 'hunters' to pay to hunt them.
The farmer isn't raising wild boar, just regular farmed pigs.
When domesticated pigs escape, they revert to wild pigs in two generations.
kevinds t1_j4uh9ui wrote
>The farmer isn't raising wild boar, just regular farmed pigs.
>When domesticated pigs escape, they revert to wild pigs in two generations.
They are just letting them grow, and then hunting them. Not feeding or sheltering them, but not killing the herd either.
They are not domesticated, they are not captured/counted, so they wouldn't count as escaped.
As close to raising them as they can get, without actually claiming the animals as theirs.
So bad.
>wild boar hunting in Alberta is wildly popular, in part because there is no limit on the season. At HogWild Specialties in Mayerthorpe, owner Earl Hagman sells both wild boar meat and overnight hunting packages. Large trophy boar hunts are $1,800, and hunters can bring any legal weapon and are guided through the property.
>Hagman says the packages are popular, and the business hosts around 10 hunters per month. However, he says most people “come for the meat” because of Hagmans “natural” raising process: meat animals are $1,000 each.
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