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[โ€“] AlmightyDoorman@kbin.earth 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

A quick and dirty internet search says that a typical farm pig lives around 7 months. So you could ban every meat pig product in a year, stop breeding new pigs and just murder the old ones for meat and you would have no problem at all. So a grace period of less than a year is needed and you wouldn't have this problem. (I also seriously doubt that most farm pigs would be able to survive in the wild, but for that i am not knowledgeable enough. But e.g. modern chickens have a huge calcium deficiency which makes them not very suited for wildlife, there was an study that the average chicken at any given time has three broken bones.)

Or to put it in another way, we have to replace all farm pigs almost twice yearly anyway, so let's just stop replacing them.

[โ€“] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

That makes a lot of sense. My knowledge on feral farm pigs is anecdotal at best, but from what I've been told and understand (at work now, so not enough time to research it properly) hogs that get released or escape breed with wild pigs and create dangerous pigstrosities, but that may well be farmer lore/old wives tales for all I know