Wild boar make a comeback
What prompted this thought was a visit to my local supermarket. Wandering past the chests of frozen food I noticed joints of wild boar for sale. It’s a meat I’m fond of, though I don’t get to eat it very often, so I bought a piece.
It was packed in a box and when I got home I started to read the small print on it, curious about where my boar had come from. I knew it almost certainly came from a farm, not from the wild, but was it an Irish farm? The answer was that the meat had been packaged in Germany, which is not surprising as there are lots of wild boar in Germany and it was a German supermarket, but that the ingredients had come from the USA. This was a surprise. There are species of wild and feral pigs in the Americas but the European wild boar is not one of them.
