[eigenstuff]

Chronic wasting disease wouldn't affect wild hogs, though, and wild hogs are destroying the environment in Texas.

[paulcole]

The people in Texas are doing far more damage to the environment than any number of hogs could.

[steve_adams_86]

That doesn't make your parent comment wrong, though.

[paulcole]

If you honestly believe hogs are destroying the environment in Texas, I don’t know what to tell you. It’s about as hyperbolic as it gets.

[hprotagonist]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pi...

[paulcole]

Do you honestly believe that hogs are destroying the environment of Texas?

If so, then I guess we have different definitions of “destroying the environment.” Some damaged farmland, a few possible fishkills, and some erosion are blips on the radar compared to the damage done by industrial farming, suburban sprawl, oil companies, etc.

I guess it is nice to have a scapegoat though — or in this case a scape-hog.