All family farm swine to be killed by Michigan State for looking feral

Play the videos for the details - he explains it better. This family needs your support now in donations to fight the law!

www.bakersgreenacres.com

I hate to say it, but the ACLU might be a source of free legal support to challenge the Constitutionality of this / these laws.

Thanks. I normally don't do things like this but he is a retired veteran and this hits close to me. I hope others here in this site extend support in the defense of his livelihood and in the grand scheme of things defend our farming freedom - he deserves the return favor.

Brendan Getchel wrote:I hate to say it, but the ACLU might be a source of free legal support to challenge the Constitutionality of this / these laws.

More likely the ACLU won't be interested. They were not interested in NAIS because it was about farmers, not people. I tried to get them interested but they literally told me that. Really weird.

As I posted over on your other thread asking about this, it's crazy, unscientific and a blatant trampling on the Constitutional rights. But, it's easy to understand. It is all about greed and cutting out the competition. What is particularly, almost, amusing is that Big Ag feels threatened enough to have pushed for this. As I said, greed.

Anyone who can connect to this should check out what the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund is doing. There is a detailed article about this case on their website as well, www.farmtoconsumer.org

For a century and a half, this pig (Mangalista) was the most popular breed in Hungary. Their meat is highly sought after in much of Europe, and rightly so.

It would be hard to classify the breed as feral. Sure, its origin comes from the wild boar, but the same can be said of any other domestic breed.

(You cannot make a real Hungarian sausage without Mangle pork)

EDITED to add link from Hungary (in English):

http://www.agroservice.hu/mangainfo1.htm

/rant on
This is total BS. The DNR is trying to get everyone all worked up about this "Feral hog pandemic". While I can see how they can and have cause crop damages in other areas they are not running rampant and eating everything like they try to sensationalize it. My room mate and I both hunt and after hearing these "killer hogs on the loose" reports from some friends, we don't watch the idiot box anymore so we hear it from word of mouth. We were like hell lets go hunt them! So we check the DNR website to see where the sightings are:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/2011FSMap_010512_372841_7.pdf

Wow, so out of 80+ counties we have 0 sightings in 39 of them, and 1 sighting in most of the rest. Hell there's more than one sighting of bigfoot per county on a yearly basis.

It's the same sensational BS over and over...

The gypsy moths are going to decimate the forests!!

Zebra mussels will kill everything in the great lakes then come for you and your children!!

There's a healthy population of coyotes in most of the state, and an even healthier population of hunters. Our state's going broke, the state parks are in desperate need of upkeep, and this is where the resources are going...

They say "feral swine pandemic", I say, "Challenge accepted."

Got a swine problem, send me a PM. Have gun, will travel.

/rant off

DNRs Website: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10370_12145_55230---,00.html

The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund has a posting about it.
http://www.farmtoconsumer.org/michigan-dnr-going-hog-wild.htm

What about the "domestic human pandemic"?

The DNR says it will utlize "phenotype to identify Sus scrofa and distinguish it from other species.
Identification may include use of one or more of the following characteristics:
(i) ears, legs, and tail) that are dark brown to black in coloration, and lack light-colored tips
on the bristles.
(ii) Coat coloration: Sus scrofa exhibit a number of coat coloration patterns. Patterns most
frequently observed among wild/feral/hybrid types are: wild/grizzled; solid black; solid
red/brown; black and white spotted; black and red/brown spotted.
(iii)Underfur: Sus scrofa exhibit the presence of underfur that is lighter in color (e.g.,
smoke gray to brown) than the overlying dark brown to black bristles/guard hairs."

That captures most heritage breeds, it seems.

"phenotype to identify Sus scrofa and distinguish it from other species." It's ridiculous to call feral hogs a different species from domestic hogs, when they are all the same species (Sus scrofa). The domestic pig is Sus scrofa domesticus, and all domestic pigs can revert to the original wild boar form in only a few generations. The only pig relative species native to North America is the Javalina. So what other "species" is the DNR trying to distinguish pigs from? Pigs of the same species!

BEWARE! If any of your chickens look anything like this guy,

you could be accused of harboring a feral chicken, (Gallus gallus) the famous Red Jungle Fowl...the grandfather of all domestic species!

John Polk wrote:BEWARE! If any of your chickens look anything like this guy,

That's the scrawniest looking chicken I've ever seen.

Nice cock.

Walter Jeffries wrote:Nice cock.

I thought it was on the small side.

But look at the accouterments.

OMG!!!
Just when I think the powers that be cvant get any crazier....BAM I am proved wrong.
I agree that we need to do something about that really dangerious species called
homeo sapeions ( spelled wrong intentionally). This species can be found behind desks
cowtowing to big agriculture and having nothing to do but write laws that stop
everyones right to be sustainable. their aim is to make everyone a slave to big
agriculture. This species must be stopped!