Have you priced "organic" meat in the grocery? That's why.
I'm intimately familiar with the price of grass raised beef, which is my family's livelihood. Pigs destroying ground otherwise used in beef production only raises the price of the final product when it hits stores shelves. While you may see pork as being "free" meat, the fact is, the more land they destroy, the more food costs raise, whether its because of pastureland destroyed by pigs, or because of food crops they're destroyed. There's a cost, not only environmentally, but economically, associated with expanded pig numbers. That said, organic meant being expensive...or not....
*I* wouldn't wish destruction and loss on my friends and neighbors, and wishing for increased...or here, thankfully, introduced....pig numbers would be doing exactly that. My access to cheap meat doesn't offset the damage done by wild pigs no matter how one looks at it, and to see things otherwise means one isn't seeing the big picture in the slightest. Pigs are an invasive species that do untold damage to environments they are introduced to or migrate to. Why anyone would support the expansion of something so wholly worthless to the environment, again, just baffles me. It shows an utter disregard for the ideals of conservation.
Just because folks like to hunt does not mean they want to see someone's livelyhood or property damaged.
no, liking to hunt doesn't mean that one wants someone's livelihood or property damaged, but wishing for more pigs is the equivalent of just that.....more pigs WILL come at a cost to the environment, and to people's bottom lines. Anyone wishing for more hogs is, at least indirectly, wishing for more of the issues that are an unavoidable fact that come with them. You can't want more hogs and less damage to the environment and/or property be it public or private. The two are inseparable...hogs bring with them destruction. More hogs equal more damage. Fewer hogs equal less damage. No hogs mean NO hog damaged fields, and I hope South Dakota continues to be hog free in the future. We don't want them, don't need, them, and think those that want more of them are rather silly and shortsighted, if not downright greedy and selfish.