Wild boar is a traditional meat in Italy, where it's served in a ragu sauce with pappardelle pasta. So it's nothing new to New York foodies, who've been dining on it for decades in Italian restaurants like DeGrezia Ristorante in Manhattan.
The overpopulation of wild boars in Texas ranch lands has prompted a new wave of culinary creativity. It's become a fixture of Texas cuisine, even though the tough meat is tricky to prepare. If you do it right it's really delicious; if you don't do it right you're chewing for a week.
Love said that he buys the boar meat from Texas distributors. He said he also shoots up to a dozen boars every time he visits his ranch, for purposes of eradication. Texas' law stipulates that hunters are allowed to eat the meat, but only state-approved trappers are allowed to sell it. Try this, I tell you, and you will never go back to normal pepperoni.
Companies like Helibacon, which charges customers thousands of dollars to shoot wild boars from helicopters, are capitalizing on pig proliferation in Texas. The Motley Fool Paid Partner. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering allowing hunters in helicopters to shoot wild hogs at a wildlife refuge in Central Texas, saying they keep destroying the habitat.
The city has trapped about 30 hogs, although Rentschler said he believes many more are roaming parts of the city. Captured pigs are humanely euthanized, he said. In Irving, residents in a neighborhood near a park were alarmed last fall when they found their yards unearthed by what appeared to have been a bulldozer.
Residents first suspected vandals until someone saw animal tracks, and one neighbor later spotted a pack of hogs trotting down the street on another night.
Irving then started trapping the animals — the largest weighing in at pounds. Irving, which contracts with a wildlife services company to control its hog problem, then takes the hogs to a meat processing company. But eventually, he said confidently, they would have to come out to eat. Around 2 a.
A racket down the hill from where the hunters were scanning the panorama made them jump. It was a false alarm: just a few loose horses that roam the acres. Suddenly, Paddock noticed something, and a look of defeat formed on his face. The winds had shifted, and were moving past the hunters and down into the creek bed where he thought the hogs were holed up. That meant the swine could smell him before he could see them.
Paddock was right -- they had. When he returned after daybreak, he found a hayfield torn asunder. Shielded by the fog, the hogs had been just 50 feet away, pigging out all night long. All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. Edom, Texas It was a cool Saturday night in East Texas, and many men were surely someplace warm, swilling beer and watching football.
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