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The number of cases has decreased because of legislation prohibiting the feeding of raw meat garbage to hogs, increased commercial and home freezing of pork, and the public awareness of the danger of eating raw or undercooked pork products. [40] China reports around 10,000 cases every year and is the country with the highest number of cases.
A feral pig is a domestic pig which has gone feral, meaning it lives in the wild. The term feral pig has also been applied to wild boars, which can interbreed with domestic pigs. [1] They are found mostly in the Americas and Australia. Razorback and wild hog are sometimes used in the United States refer to feral pigs or boar–pig hybrids.
Feral hogs are bad for the U.S. economy, costing about $2 billion a year in the agricultural sector. Texas leads the country in terms of population.
The Wild Hog Task Force estimates that hogs cause hundreds of millions of dollars of damage every year. They can destroy acres of crops or forests overnight and will sometimes eat young livestock ...
And then there’s the added benefit of cooking and eating any 50- to 80-pound hog I can kill. There’s no shortage of them, and they make pretty good table fare.
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (pl.: swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is named the domestic pig when distinguishing it from other members of the genus Sus. It is considered a subspecies of Sus scrofa (the wild boar or Eurasian boar) by some authorities, but as a distinct species by others.
Feral hogs cause an estimated $400 million in damage per year in Texas, according to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, while national costs are estimated at about $1.5 billion annually.
Pigs are competent predators and can kill and eat helpless humans unable to escape them. [30] [31] [32] Numerous animal trials in the Middle Ages involved pigs accused of eating children. [33] In 2019, a woman was attacked and killed by a herd of feral hogs in rural Texas. She died due to exsanguination (i.e. bled to death) from bite wounds.