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In all practicality, you wouldn't care to consume wild boar due to boar taint[1].

It's disgusting to everyone, but women are particularly sensitive to the male sex hormone and tend to find it highly unpalatable.

There's a reason why boars are used historically to represent especially unpleasant or revolting men.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar_taint

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It's commonly eaten in Europe (as commonly as any other game meat, anyway). By both men and women. It's not disgusting at all.

Wild Boar meat is eaten in the US as well but a) almost always you’d prefer juvenile boar and b) boar taint is undetectable to many people.

I for one don’t have a problem but my wife is repulsed by it. Also it’s not “gamey” it’s a different flavor profile.

I wouldn't place too much weight on boar taint.

While a real and recognized phenomenon, it isn't common or universal. I haven't ever noticed it in wild boar and have not heard of it from any other hunters. Internet forums of full of hunters arguing over if it exists at all.

I imagine there's also some selection going on with people (primarily men) who cannot detect it or find it inoffensive and people who hunt boars and post about it on the internet.

I don't hunt boar because I don't like eating it, at least.

The generation of my grandfather taught me to cut off the "Klöten" (testicles) right after his death in order to prevent boar taint.

Surely we'll find something that eats it, and then eat that?

Make pet food out of it.

The better solution to control them, whereas cleaning parasites at the same time, is clearly stablished and available. Research found that wolves yearly diet is composed of 80% of wild boar in some areas of Europe.

Ewww, but okay. I wonder what the sex ratio is of wild pigs.

Thanks for that link tho, learn something new every day.

There's a collection of stories by Skeeter Skelton (Good Friends, Good Guns, Good Whiskey) some of which discuss the hunting of wild boar in Texas.

In several of the stories there are recipes and methods of cooking the meat that make it palatable.

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