In an unprecedented private property grab, (click here) Governor Rick Snyder's Michigan Department of Natural Resources issued an Invasive Species Order (ISO) that allows his agents to forcibly commandeer and destroy heritage breed pigs -- including piglets -- on thousands of family farms in that state....
Snyder is abusing the right of private property owners that happen to be farmers acting responsibly in their operations. The reason Snyder acts in this bizarre manner is for some kind of weird application of an "Invasive Species Law in Michighan."
Get this, Snyder even attached the right of an Iraq War Veteran farmer that raises an endangered species of pig. No lie. This one is a real doozy.
This is a Mangalista. It is an endangered pig. It hails from Hungary and a Michigan farmer, an Iraq War Veteran has a pure bred he crosses with other pigs to derive a hybrid that local markets and restaurants find an irresistable form of pork to serve their customers.
Don't ask me what turns a Governor against his own farming community, but, perhaps it is the same idiot claim he has the right to remove democracy from cities and instill his own form of dictatorship!
If anyone wants to get serious about feral hogs in any state, they should introduce a 'fatal' gene into the population of the hogs and within a generation or two they won't be multiplying by the hundreds every year.
Snyder is a crackpot like most of his peers from 2010. He seriously needs to be recalled.
Please see Mr. Baker's testimony above, thank you.
Snyder is abusing the right of private property owners that happen to be farmers acting responsibly in their operations. The reason Snyder acts in this bizarre manner is for some kind of weird application of an "Invasive Species Law in Michighan."
Get this, Snyder even attached the right of an Iraq War Veteran farmer that raises an endangered species of pig. No lie. This one is a real doozy.
An Old Breed of Hungarian Pig Is Back in Favor (click here)
LIKE style on the runway, style for pigs is changeable. With their abundant fat, the curly-haired Mangalitsa pigs of Hungary were all the rage a century ago. But as time went on, they became has-beens.
Now that succulent pork is back in fashion, the Mangalitsa — saved from near extinction on a farm here at the edge of Hungary’s bleak and barren Great Plain — are making a comeback.
Most of those raised here become ham and other cured meats in Spain. But Mangalitsas are also being raised at farms in the United States for chefs who pay as much as 40 percent more for them than for Berkshires, another elite breed....
The farmer is Mark Baker and his farm is called "Baker's Green Acres,(click here). Pigs like the Mangalitsa's are considered a Heritage Breed. Heritage Breeds usually have special status in the market place and on farms around the country. But, for some bizarre reason Snyder has decided to pub these pigs on his list of invasive species.
There are 'FERAL HOGS' in southern Michigan, but, Mr. Baker's pigs are well tended to on a 'pasture fed' basis. These are not feral hogs and this entire issue with Snyder and the hog farmers is insane. There are already farmers in Michigan that have culled their stock on the threat of imprisonment. This is an outrageous injustice in a state where an economy is more important than feral hogs!
The farmer is Mark Baker and his farm is called "Baker's Green Acres,(click here). Pigs like the Mangalitsa's are considered a Heritage Breed. Heritage Breeds usually have special status in the market place and on farms around the country. But, for some bizarre reason Snyder has decided to pub these pigs on his list of invasive species.
There are 'FERAL HOGS' in southern Michigan, but, Mr. Baker's pigs are well tended to on a 'pasture fed' basis. These are not feral hogs and this entire issue with Snyder and the hog farmers is insane. There are already farmers in Michigan that have culled their stock on the threat of imprisonment. This is an outrageous injustice in a state where an economy is more important than feral hogs!
Don't ask me what turns a Governor against his own farming community, but, perhaps it is the same idiot claim he has the right to remove democracy from cities and instill his own form of dictatorship!
If anyone wants to get serious about feral hogs in any state, they should introduce a 'fatal' gene into the population of the hogs and within a generation or two they won't be multiplying by the hundreds every year.
Snyder is a crackpot like most of his peers from 2010. He seriously needs to be recalled.
Please see Mr. Baker's testimony above, thank you.
