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Housewife-turned hunter sets sights on wasted boar meat

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By Ryotaro Nakamaru

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Exciting ! Well done !

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Bravo! More creative enterprises such as this one ought to be encouraged. City governments and education programs could encourage younger people to apprentice alongside the women in order to keep the necessary skill sets alive. That's at least as valuable as an after school club or cram school.

My grandparents as well as aunts and uncles raised and butchered their own meat and sometimes supplemented the supply with game which they hunted. The taste can't touch anything sourced in the supermarket.

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Japanese wild boar meat is highly contaminated with parasites, even wikipedia talks about it.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yoken/68/6/68_JJID.2015.280/_pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_boar

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I’ve seen a wild boar captured in a cage trap and then stabbed to death with knives mounted on poles-not the most humane practice....

Better to meet your ‘foe’with a rifle eh?

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This article makes it very clear that the "eco" or "environmental" movement is used as a blanked justification for everything and anything. It is meant to be twisted and distorted so that any activity is "good" or "bad" for the environment. In this case wild boars are a danger to the ecosystem and must be slaughtered. And because a woman is doing the slaughtering of the animals it is a GOOD thing. Maybe the Japanese woman should move her home and business out of the countryside so that wild boars have more space and a chance to live. She could give up her car and gun and move to the city and use public transportation. That would HELP the "ECOSYSTEM"

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she wants to ensure the local ecosystem is not threatened by overpopulation of wild animals, which leads to overfeeding on vegetation

 a neighbor offered to cook her some boar meat that she caught the hunting bug.

"It was so delicious. 

The meat is prepared into cuts or turned into sausages or jerky to be sold at local shops or online. People who bring in a carcass can collect 2,000 yen, or if they choose, half of the meat, but "most are just happy to have it taken off their hands!"

We have to keep the culture alive.

So, which is it? An opportunistic business venture, environmental protection, gluttony, a trendy 'bug', or culture

(pfft, 'culture'... the blanket excuse for killing animals and for criminal behaviour.)

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Several animal species have been wiped out in Japan and more it seems, will follow?

I am thankful that large parts of Japan cannot be inhabited.....

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Maybe the Japanese woman should move her home and business out of the countryside so that wild boars have more space and a chance to live. 

Blame the writer of the article for the "wording" but the women are doing something positive here, in my opinion.

Culling of herds of animals is and has been a common practice.

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Japanese wild boar meat is highly contaminated with parasites, even wikipedia talks about it.

Then make sure you cook it first!

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My friends in Eastern Germany and Poland say they are still careful about not eating any wild game, mushrooms etc after Chernobyl. I’d steer clear of game meat from Tohoku (I know this article is talking about Atami)...

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Wild boar is very good. Withnthe large number of them tearing up the environment they are definitely a wasted resource. It makes better sense to target these animals and use the meat for school lunches than it does to spend millions of dollars hunting whales for the same purpose.

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Wild boar is very good. With the large number of them tearing up the environment they are definitely a wasted resource. It makes better sense to target these animals and use the meat for school lunches than it does to spend millions of dollars hunting whales for the same purpose.

I agree! Seems like far too many people are ignorant about the damage these animals can do in the wild and they are dangerous as well.

Culling them and using the meat for a positive purpose is justified on any level!

Just wish we had enough of them down here for ME to go hunting again!

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The problem with hunting is the inexperienced gun users matched with overpopulation. There has to be a clash, which results in a few deaths every year. I used to hunt feral pigs in Australia, but we never used guns. A pack of aggressive dogs and a 10” knife is much more fun and a lot less dangerous. Any danger is from the dogs, not the feral pigs.

Note: The article is about wild boar that are native to S/E Asia. It’s not about feral pigs. A feral animal is a domestic animal that has gone wild.

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Hunting is NOT needlessly killing animals.

Many people these days that grew up in second or first world nations simply have no knowledge on the subject, nor do their parents, so it’s a forgotten aspect of human life.

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thepersoniamnowToday 02:43 pm JSTHunting is NOT needlessly killing animals.

Many people these days that grew up in second or first world nations simply have no knowledge on the subject, nor do their parents, so it’s a forgotten aspect of human life.

There's nothing wrong with hunting, as long as every part of the animal is utilized - for food, clothing, medicines, lubricants, etc. Native Americans took only what was needed. Hunting just for the sake of it is wasteful + stupid. Just like bull-fighting. If you kill it, grill it.  

The key to it all is, don't waste anything. I eat steak + bacon + hamburgers + fish but killing them for trophy or 'sport' is senseless.

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Now start tackling the crow problem in Japan.

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Starpunk

You don’t get to set all the terms according to what suits your taste.

American Indians? Cmon man, you would have literally starved to death back then if you did not hunt, so include the cowboys, the children, and the dog with your American Indian. I agree that trophy killing is distasteful, but hunting has a whole, whether it’s to cull millions of wild pigs in Texas, deer in upstate NY, or boar in North Japan, is a necessary thing we do.

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I agree that trophy killing is distasteful, but hunting has a whole, whether it’s to cull millions of wild pigs in Texas, deer in upstate NY, or boar in North Japan, is a necessary thing we do.

Then you process the meat and dole it all out to the people who have nothing to eat. There's always people starving somewhere. I remember as a teenager there was a huge rabbit explosion in the Pacific Northwest. The slain excess rabbits were shipped out for food for hungry people in Nigeria. Nothing wasted, and rabbit meat is delicious. And it's 'lean' too. Yummy!

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thepersoniamnowToday 04:30 pm JSTStarpunk

You don’t get to set all the terms according to what suits your taste.

American Indians? Cmon man, you would have literally starved to death back then if you did not hunt, so include the cowboys, the children, and the dog with your American Indian. I agree that trophy killing is distasteful, but hunting has a whole, whether it’s to cull millions of wild pigs in Texas, deer in upstate NY, or boar in North Japan, is a necessary thing we do.

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It is a necessary thing to do to 'keep nature's balance' and sometimes to stop the spread of diseases. But say slaying elephants just to get their tusks or perhaps killing off the dodo or passenger pigeon to the point of extinction is totally reckless and stupid. As for culling millions of wild pigs in Texas, deer in upstate NY, or boar in North Japan - if you have to you have to, but be responsible about it. There's always somebody who'll eat the stuff so let them have it.

We have all these animals, plants, resources on this planet and we need to be shall I say 'conservative' about it so it will be around for us all in the future. And you never can tell what more medicines could be discovered. Wild pigs have insulin for diabetics, for instance. Cures for cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's are somewhere.

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Had wildboar burger weeks ago, better than beef. But can't able to know whether it was pork or wildboar, have to try another wildboar burger at another burger chain to make sure the taste.

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