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Europe the average consumption of wild boar is close to zero per year. =
Even hunters eat very little venison, because they have to sell it, in =
order to be able to keep the forest and the game population intact.=20

So what??????=20

If you get hold into such meat, either from feral pigs or wild boar, =
enjoy it!

Franz




---- Doug Aitken <jdaitken at sugar-land.oilfield.slb.com> schrieb:
> Having seen many in the backwoods of Texas, and some big'uns in the=20
> jungles of Borneo, the "wild boar" in Texas are in general feral pigs=20
> - domestic pigs that have escaped and gone wild.
> They lack the vicious curved fangs of the real boar. But you still=20
> don't want to mess with them, especially if it is a mother with =
piglets!
>  They are indeed a real nuisance and are hunted regularly, but those=20
> critters breed like crazy and you just can't keep 'em down. And they=20
> grow big!
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> I can=E2=80=99t say that the flesh is much different from regular pig =
- a bit=20
> more "gamey". But as I never tasted real "boar" I am sure there is a=20
> bit of a difference.
> Doug
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Dan W McCarn
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 5:58 PM
> To: 'The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics)=20
> MailingList'; 'Gilbert Keeney'; 'Franz Sch=C3=B6nhofer'
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Austrian Versus Texas Wild Boar Meat
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> Dear Maury:
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> I am expert on part of this subject!
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> For years in Austria, I'd ride the fence on my horse 4 seasons a year=20
> to check for places where wild boars had dug through or under the=20
> fences in the Karnabrunner Wald in Lower Austria.  For this task, I=20
> was awarded a free wild boar each year (with me at the trigger of my=20
> accurized Winchester Model
> 1894 .30-30) and they all tasted "real good".  I did this memorable=20
> task from 1981 through 1988, so I was quite conscious of the potential =

> effects of the Chernobyl accident.
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> HOWEVER, following the accident, our hunting club submitted a wild=20
> boar shot (and refrigerated) the autumn before Chernobyl for testing.  =

> The report was that it was badly radioactively contaminated, so we=20
> tended not to believe anything we were told after that.  I also shot=20
> quite a few pheasant, duck & roe deer in Austria, and they all tasted =
"real good", too!
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> Heck, I've even been snipe hunting in Austria, too!  (The real kind!)
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> I also have significant experience with the succulent rattlesnakes of=20
> Colorado during years of field exploration for uranium, and they all=20
> tasted "real good", too!  I had them roasted, broiled, barbequed,=20
> turned into Chile and even curried & served on a bed of rice with=20
> mandarin oranges. I never checked to see if they were particularly=20
> radioactive or not, but their rattle sounded quite similar to my=20
> scintillation counter, so they might have been.
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> Those critters all tasted "real good"!
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> But, I've never been wild boar hunting in Texas...
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> The wild boar around Chernobyl tend to dig up the countryside as well! =
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> I enjoyed the Pripyat Swamp in 1996 and 1996.
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> Dan ii
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>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Maury
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 15:54
> To: Gilbert Keeney; Franz Sch=C3=B6nhofer
> Cc: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing=20
> List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Austrian Versus Texas Wild Boar Meat
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> Thanks, Neil, I'd forgotten that they are here -- I'll try to find a =
source.
> I like cabrito, but never thought to seek a source for boar. Thanks.
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> And it surely would a great pleasure to dine at Franz's table but yes, =

> the air fare is a deterrent ...
> Maury&Dog
> =
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> On 6/5/2011 3:29 PM, neilkeeney at aol.com wrote:
> > Maury,
> >
> > As you know, there are literally tons of wild boar on the hoof over=20
> > there
> in Texas.  You don't need to import it from Austria.  I know that in=20
> Texas, they ruin rice and row-crop production with their feeding =
habits.
> >
> > I recall that here in the U.S., during the fall and winter large=20
> > portions
> of the the diet of wild pigs consists of acorns and acorn 'mash' that=20
> accumulate in washes, runnels, stream beds and the like.  Perhaps the=20
> Oaks of Austria (sounds picturesque)) serve to concentrate Cs-137 in=20
> the acorn production...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Neil Keeney
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