“We want more dead wild boars. The friction arose with the idea that meat could be sold from captured wild boars. The only way to sell pork is if it has been inspected as part of our meat inspection program,” Frazier said. The designation would also make it legal for trappers and hunters to sell pork carcasses, but they would violate state and federal agricultural regulations if they processed the meat and sold it to the public, Frazier said. Alabama has long been home to a thriving wild boar population in its southwest swamps along the Tombigbee and Alabama rivers and in the Mobile Tensaw Delta. All of our deer and antelopes are harvested in the field under full inspection by the Texas Department of Health`s Meat Inspection Division. Since wild boars are “pigs” and can be controlled under the FMIA, they are slaughtered in a federally controlled processing plant. Each meat product inspected must be labelled with the authority that controls the meat. The label will have a small logo in the shape of a triangle, circle or even the state of Texas that includes a number that identifies the facility where it was processed. If the label does not bear this mark, the meat will not be checked.
If it has this mark, it is legal to sell. There is no law prohibiting the sale of game meat (game, etc.). However, there are laws that prohibit the sale of uncontrolled game meat. If the game meat has received a certification mark from a state or federal inspection program or has been legally imported, it is legal for sale anywhere in the United States. Alabama`s chief veterinarian said the conservation agency`s proposal to designate wild boars as fur carriers so they can be legally captured and their carcasses sold would not create wild boar meat markets around the corner because it`s illegal to sell uninspected pork. (Photo by Frank Sargeant) In today`s atmosphere of lawsuits for almost every reason, serving meat that has not been properly inspected invites litigation. Your company cannot risk a lawsuit on this basis. In addition, you are almost certainly violating your city or county`s health regulations, which state that any meat served to the public must come from an “approved source.” Since we harvest truly wild and free-roaming deer and antelopes from remote ranches in Texas, the inspection must be done in the field while the animals are harvested and processed. We achieve this through a unique process that includes a fully mobile and self-contained slaughterhouse.
All animals are harvested according to their species in the field to minimize stress. They can only be skinned and eviscerated in our mobile treatment trailer, where the inspector examines the organs for signs of disease (autopsy) and monitors the entire procedure for good hygiene practices. Click here to learn more about our unique field harvesting methods. This is especially true, he said, as the Nature Conservation Agency issued an ordinance last year requiring wild boars caught or captured by dogs to be killed before they can be transported out of the forest. Trap operation: All live caging traps must be inspected every 36 hours. All captured non-target wild or domestic animals must be removed or released immediately upon detection. Alabama`s chief veterinarian said he doesn`t expect to buy wild boar meat around the corner anytime soon. It should be reasonable to expect that any game meat offered for sale to you will be adequately tested for digestibility and hygiene. Often, however, non-purchasable game meat is controlled. This article describes how to determine if the meat you`re buying is fully inspected, by whom, and why you should worry if it isn`t. Some exotic hunting ranches in Texas charge up to $900 to catch and shoot a large “wild boar.” At the lower end of the scale, hunters pay about $120 to hunt large wild boars on hunting leases. Orange hunter: People who hunt wild boar for deer during an open gun season must wear 500 square inches of solid, uninterrupted hunter orange in full visibility, unless they are hunting from a fully enclosed stand.
Lab tests of Texas wild boar meat show that it tends to contain less fat than domestic pigs, making the nutritional facts more appealing to a health-conscious consumer. By using large slaughterhouses and cutting plants such as Frontier Meats in North Texas and Southern Wild Wild in Devine (South Texas), the quality of the meat and cuts can be monitored more closely and presented to the customer in an attractive format that makes the product more appealing to an end user.
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