Wild Pigs of Europe Are Highly Radioactive
Wild Pigs of Europe Are Highly Radioactive
Don’t eat them.
Radroaches and radscorpions here we come!
chalk-full of radioactive cesium
Do they not have editors anymore, or are they just worked to death? I swear I see minor but annoying errors like this in a huge portion of online news media now.
Nitpicking aside, I wonder if similar studies have been done on feral boar in the southwest US, where there has also been historical nuclear weapons testing?
So relieved to see someone else mention this, was starting to question whether I'm just being neurotic when little errors like this have me concerned about whether the underlying content is being thoroughly reviewed
It really has been getting worse and worse. I’m not in publishing but I’m pretty sure they (most modern media) post first and edit later, if ever.
When an edit could instead be an entire different mediocre article published the choice is easy
Bone apple tea
Do they not have editors anymore
Naah, they're all in a rush to be the first to press with the Radioactive Pig scoop.
Frustrating title. It's not the wild boars of Europe, but of (per the article) Germany and Austria. And they actually talk mostly/only about Germany and Bavaria.
Eastern regions of Bavaria. Same goes for mushrooms. Boars shot in that region get tested for contamination. Everywhere else wild game is the best meat.
Spider pig, spider pig, something something my bacon is glowing
Neat. I am off to see what happens when I get bit by one! Sqweeeeeeeeeee!
You'll lose a hand, most likely.
So how do we correct this? I ask because we have a strong push for nuclear as a cleaner energy source, but we know energy providers have a spotty history with safety. If we're going to take this route then we should have some reliable plans in place to decontaminate when the need arises.
Well, as the article points out, one of the biggest causes of the radioactivity is from nuclear weapons testing 60-80 years ago. We already stopped that so that bit is taken care of. It will just take a lot more time for the radioactivity to decay down.
The article is really poor though. The title says it’s because of Chernobyl, but the study actually found that it was weapons testing more than Chernobyl.
This will be tricky, but we simply can't let the USSR build any more nuclear power.
It's a lost cause, I have to fight off the Soviet plant builders every time I leave the house. They'll manage it eventually.
Wild Pigs of Europe would make a good band name.
in what area are they?
I laugh my ass off reading this and thinking of all the old, privileged, annoying, self-important hunter clubs who boast endlessly about their vital ecological mission and benefits of eating game. Stuff your fat faces with cessium and I'll just stand here and hope for as painful a consequence as possible.
I'm curious what country/culture you're from that this is a significant problem in your life?
It kinda sounds like you're a medieval serf who got an arrow shot in your ass while poaching off the king's preserve.
...or like, you're reading an awful lot of fantasy...and thinking 500-year-ago-problems are today's problems...
I am from a country in Europe where "hunters" are the slapstick version of rich, douchey deep state. Tons of politicians, religious figures, business people are hunting for hobby and I wouldn't bat an eye if they did it in compliance to law, common sense and rules of wildlife management. But they do not and are famous for:
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blatant poaching
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corrupting local forest management to allow for excessive shootings
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the corruption at one point has reached the country parliament and a country-wide green light was given to cull boars because several sick ones were found in one region.
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running events which have nothing to do with traditional hunting, nothing to do with wildlife management, but are instead shooting rows with random animals ran across a yard and being shot. Then their children (often as young as 7-8 yo) get to pose for instagram pics with fresh, bloody carcasses.
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shooting people (both themselves and innocent mushroom pickers) and then getting acquitted after saying "I thought that was a boar" (the phrase is a meme now, but it still works in courts from time to time)
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handling firearms in a way that would get any other person in jail (including neglecting psych checks, wrong storage, littering forests with lead ammo)
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Only the rich eat game meat?
Hey, who said you could post an article about my family?
Blindsided me with this comment and gave me a good chuckle. The best kind of comment.
