I saw the picture on snopes.com and it is disturbing, but I think the claim is a hoax. Even if that is a penis, I can't see any way it can get burnt up that bad from peeing on an electrical fence.

If I bought it second-hand. It's more environmentally friendly to purchase second-hand clothing (whether it's produced from animal byproducts or not) than it is to have a factory produce it new.

This "cheap market" produces these byproducts regardless of whether I support it or not.

(You are all consumers supporting an industry that kills animals.)Everyone is.
Such industries are ingrained in our lives.

Might want to consider how the human population has affected natural habbitats and environmental stability with its practices before making such statements.

We are part of nature. It is not nature versus man. On a primal level we are animals.
We have disrupted our planet, by clearing land for housing, destroying habitat, introduction of different species, to lands with fragile natives. All have affected the eco system.

I have to smile at the concept of feral pigs ............ exactly where do they exist?

I have to smile at the concept of feral pigs ............ exactly where do they exist?

Captain Cook presented some pigs to the Maori and released others during his second and third voyages to New Zealand during 1773–1777. The first official introduction to Australia was with the first fleet in 1788. Feral pigs are habitat generalists and have colonised subalpine grasslands and forests, dry woodlands, tropical rainforests, semi-arid and monsoonal floodplains, swamps and other wetlands in many parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales, and other states and territories. Their distribution in inland or seasonally dry areas of Australia is restricted to the vicinity of watercourses and their associated floodplains. In the more forest-covered parts of eastern Australia and south-west Western Australia, populations are still spreading, often through deliberate or accidental releases. In New Zealand, feral pigs are also distributed throughout the North and South Islands where there is suitable habitat.
Once established, colonies of feral pigs build up rapidly in many areas. Estimates of population size vary between 3.5 million and 23.5 million, inhabiting 38% of Australia, but their distribution and abundance can vary markedly from year to year according to environmental conditions.

BIOLOGY
The biology and ecology of feral pigs are two of the major reasons why they are such an important and successful vertebrate pest in Australia. Their large robust bodies, snouts specially developed for rooting up the ground, omnivorous diet and adaptive activity patterns allow them to live in a wide range of habitats. Adult males usually weigh between 75 and 115 kilograms and sows 75 kilograms, although the weight varies with the quality of the habitat. In cooler and wetter areas feral pigs can reach 175 kilograms while boars over 200 kilograms are regularly caught in New Zealand. Feral pigs will breed continuously if there is sufficient, high quality food but in most areas they are seasonal breeders. For example, in the NSW highlands, young are mainly born in summer and autumn whereas under suitable conditions they breed all year on the flood plains of western NSW.
Sows breed at about 25 to 30 kilograms, which they reach at about seven to 12 months, with an average litter of six. Two litters a year are possible in good conditions although one litter a year is more common. Feral pigs have a reproductive rate that is closer to rabbits than other large herbivores and, potentially, populations can increase by 86% a year. Hence feral pigs can quickly recover from the impact of management or drought.
Feral pigs are opportunistic omnivores that prefer green vegetation, a wide variety of animal material, fruits and grain. Other foods include underground, starch-rich plant material such as roots and bulbs. They will also take fungi, earthworms, snails, eggs of ground nesting birds, turtle eggs, lambs and carrion. Like domestic pigs, feral pigs need a diet high in protein (more than 15%) in order to breed and raise their young.

DAMAGE
Feral pigs cause agricultural damage through predation of newborn lambs, reduction in crop yields, damage to fences and water sources, and competition with stock for feed by consuming or damaging pasture. They also are considered a major threat to stock as a potential carrier of exotic diseases, with the major concern being their role as a reservoir for Foot-And-Mouth Disease should it ever become established in Australia or New Zealand. However, they are also an economic resource for game meat, an industry that is worth approximately $20 million a year.
While feral pigs are also considered an environmental pest. Major damage is to habitat degradation through selective feeding, trampling and rooting for underground parts of plants and invertebrates, as well as predation on, competition with, or disturbance of a range of animals. The most obvious perceived environmental damage by feral pigs is based on their rooting up of soils, grasslands or forest litter, particularly along drainage lines, moist gullies and around swamps and lagoons, or after rain, when the ground is softer.

The origin of soul food.

Considering a wider issue - the land required to raise animals for meat - one acre will support one cow/maybe 2 or 3 sheep/goats - but would support 10 men in terms of grain production. Think about it.

Do you imagine your 'prey' actually 'feels' any different to you and I?

The fact is - it is generally a lot of over-excited guys who don't care/think - are probably incapable of doing so or they wouldn't do it in the first place.

Nature keeps its own 'balance' generally - has done for millions of years. We think we know better and have completely disrupted our ecological system. We may not survive the consequences of our 'lack of thought' and that would be a fitting epitaph.

I beg to differ. Fire is an Energy that can be both created and destroyed to name just one.


You are not creating or destroying energy. You convert mass(gas,wood etc..) into fire-. But when you put out fire, it has changed into heat energy, light energy etc. The famous Einstein's equation: E=mc^2 -- high school science:)

Everything has a beginning and an end.

Not everything. Energy doesn't. It can be neither created nor destroyed.

You can't be serious...apples to oranges once again

Deer hunting and pig hunting are completely different.

But the dogs no matter how trained they are are at a great risk of being torn wide open. The holder is especially vulnerable, his job is to get in there and stick right in the pigs face. I've seen it and it's not pretty. Can you put your own animal down when he gets hit by a pig?

Hunting with dogs IMO requires much less skill, your dogs are doing all the work while you stand back and wait; that is hunting?

junkart

wean out the dirtbags

Hunting is 90% luck, 10% skill.

What do sexual preditors, perverts, p;ayers, cheaters, get out of this kind of life style? Other than the thrill of the conquest. Isn't it a very empty shallow life with no real fullfillment or happiness?

They are very cunning and masters at what they do. Yes in the end they have nothing to show for their insensitive sexual prowling life style. There is no defense for these type of people.

Please don't assume I am stupid for not recognizing these losers

Where's the Ask a Gay forum?

We don't need an "Ask a Gay" forum because "Ask a guy" and "Ask a girl" covers it. Nowhere does it state the orientation of the guy or girl must be a certain way to post in that forum. It IS equal opportunity.

i dont believe in the use of churches, nor the fact they depend on donations and volentier work... say for exsample if i grew up in the woods with never hearing of any organized religion, lived my life like a saint, and when i died, upon showing up at the pearly gates.. would i not be aloud to enjoy ever lasting bliss in heaven cause i never read the bible nor heard of god.... i believe there is somthing siriously flawed with that idea..

if god punishes you for asking questions outside of the norm of your faith, i will be right behind you bcking you up at the pearly gates.. i promis you that