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Report: Mich. DNR Stages ‘Armed Raids’ to Enforce ‘Feral Swine’ Ban

Report: Michigan DNR Using Armed Raids to Enforce Feral Swine Ban

The Michigan DNR instituted a ban on "feral swine" and is now beginning inspections as part of enforcement, requiring owners to kill what has been deemed an invasive species.

As ranchers continue to fight against a ban the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Environment (DNR) has instituted on “feral swine” — a ban that went into effect this month — the department gone into enforcement mode, conducting “raids” on farms previously known to have had the swine.

In 2010, the DNR outlawed feral swine — pigs classified as non-native, invasive and said to be disease-carriers and detrimental to the environment — for both those raising the pigs for sport hunting and as meat. Both groups with a stake in the swine have since fought to have the ban reversed or at least suggested more stringent regulations for those who owned the pigs instead of complete eradication. But after a series of delays and extensions to give hunters an incentive to shoot wild swine and ranches the time to get rid of the animals themselves, the ban did officially go into effect April 1.

(Related: Feral fight: Family farm battles Mich. over ban that will kill livestock and livelihood)

Now, Natural News reports the DNR has conducted armed raids* against some pig farmers to enforce the ban:

Staging raids involving six vehicles and ten armed men, DNR conducted unconstitutional, illegal and arguably criminal armed raids on these two farms with the intent of shooting all the farmers’ pigs under a bizarre new “Invasive Species Order” (ISO) that has suddenly declared traditional livestock to be an invasive species.

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“I think this is an unconstitutional order, these actions of the DNR are way out of bounds,” attorney Joseph O’Leary told NaturalNews in an interview today. He is representing one of the farmers who was targeted in these raids. “To take what was six months ago an entirely legal activity, and suddenly people are felons over it. They’re not growing drugs, running guns or killing anybody, they’re raising animals pursuant to USDA regulations and state of Michigan regulations. They haven’t done anything wrong here, and the DNR is treating them like they are hardened criminals.”

Report: Michigan DNR Using Armed Raids to Enforce Feral Swine Ban

Last week, according to Cheboygan News, the DNR filed a civil complaint against Ronald and Charlene McKendrick, owners of Renegade Ranch, after access to the property was denied without a search warrant. Shortly after the complaint was filed, the Renegade Ranch was visited by the DNR on Saturday with one of the representatives having filed a restraining order, which Natural News calls “an attempt to bully their way onto the property.”

Fines for violations range from $1,000 to $20,000 per infraction according to the outlet. McKendrick will appear in court April 20 over the complaint filed against him.

McKendrick told Cheboygan News that most game ranches in Michigan depend on hog hunting to sustain business. He sees this order as a method of trying to get rid of game ranches in the state all together. For the Renegade Ranch specifically, McKendrick said hog hunting comprises 70 to 75 percent of his business.

The Farm to Consumer Defense Fund, a group supporting the cause of the swine ranchers and farmers, seconded this sentiment, stating the DNR has tried to push privatized game hunting out of the state before with little success:

For more than a decade, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has worked politically to drive private hunting preserves out of business.  However, the Michigan state legislature repeatedly rebuffed their attempts. Elected officials recognize how important private property rights are, and they were unwilling to prohibit landowners to raise and harvest animals in open areas. Now, backed by large Agribusiness interests in the state, DNR has done an end run around participatory democracy and declared swine with certain characteristics “feral” which not only includes animals raised at hunting preserves but thousands of other small farms across the state.

Natural News goes on to report Dave Tuxberry shot all of his livestock in anticipation of a DNR inspection. Bakers Green Acres, a farm covered in our original article about the feral swine ban, posted Tuxberry’s thoughts about the raid on its website:

I was served a search warrant yesterday at 7:45 a.m.

After 8 guys 3 four wheelers, and 4 hours, DNR decided I was correct. I have killed all my hogs. They gave me papers that say I do not have any hogs on my property. All they saw were dead hogs laying around from my mass slaughtering.  It took 12 guys 4 times in there to kill all of them, sows with young, Pregnant sows, dozens of piglets, and old mature boars. It has been a sad few weeks.

Does anyone know what it feels like to open fire on 20 baby piglets in one group which weigh between 5lbs and 15 lbs. They are so adorable and cute.

They commented to everyone that they never saw a fence built so tough and no way would a hog get out of this area. I trenched  2′ then installed chain link fencing, then a 10′ high tightlock fence on top of that. ( 200 acre area ) They never saw a fence like that.

Report: Michigan DNR Using Armed Raids to Enforce Feral Swine Ban

According to a release earlier in the month, the DNR had conducted six voluntary inspections where the owners were found not to be in possession of the swine. The department emphasized that those still owning the banned pigs are in violation of the law and subject to civil and criminal penalties.

“Our intent from the beginning of this Invasive Species Order has been to enforce the law while minimizing the impact on individuals and livelihoods,” said Department of Natural Resources Director Rodney Stokes in a statement. “For that reason, we provided additional time and assistance for ranch owners, breeders and others to remove prohibited animals from their properties prior to the April 1 enforcement deadline. The additional time allowed property owners to adjust their business plans to minimize economic hardship. We will continue to work cooperatively with property owners where we can.”

For more information on the ban, its enforcement and the pigs to which it applies, check out our original post here.

*While Natural News does use the term “armed raids,” it should be noted that game wardens naturally carry weapons.

Comments (181)

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  • antrancher
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:15am

    Muslims!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:21am

      Yes, indeed!

      JESUS GOD, it is in YOUR HOLY NAME we pray, begging YOU for YOUR protection over us and over the animals YOU have given to us. We stand, LORD, in YOUR name, and none other.

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    • gotty
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:53am

      What you Liberal tree Huggers don’t understand is these pigs will eradicate other species. They are not native to this region. they destroy the land, kill vegitation and displace other natural species. But by all means we should protect them. Just look at the issue Texas now has with them. As for livelyhood…would you want your neighbor growing and selling pot next door (I’m not asking you pot smokers)? it is their livelyhood. Stupid, stupid people.

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    • db321
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:01pm

      Obama has not even won his second election and his Muslim Mask is coming off. I wonder when it will be allowed for Muslim Man to marry 9 yr old Girls.

      One good thing about Sharia Law is the restricting of Women from driving – Studies show that they have less auto accidents than Men, but they certainly leave more accidents in their wake behind them than Men.

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    • JimL
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Gotty– and the spread of disease.

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    • abbygirl1994
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Do you people realize anything at all??? These animals have been pretty much domesticated… those who have these farms have been doing this for years.. the meat on these hogs are sold to some fine restaurants across the country! This is about freedom folks! Yours and mine! By all means, let the government regulate food.. and soon you won’t be able to find any! They will tell you what you ca eat and what you can’t! Michelle Obama has already done that in our schools, and is trying to tell our armed servicemen the same thing! Have any of you noticed lately a old favorite food you have bought for years now tasting different. Well there is a reason, regulation after regulation! Wake up America, before its to late!

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    • deeberj
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:18pm

      Gotty – I am not a tree hugger. I am a conservative politically and in my own personal life. I don’t smoke pot. And I would not care if my neighbors grew pot. I would not care if they have a yard full of broken down old cars. Or pink plastic flamingos. It’s their yard, they can do what they want there as long as what they are doing doesn’t infringe on my rights on my property. If it’s illegal then they will get into trouble when they get caught.

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    • JournalistStuntDouble
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:29pm

      The pigs are a head-fake. Same as the carp.

      This is not big pork.

      This is not invasive species running amock.

      This is not food supply control.

      Bigger picture…

      DoE does not want free-range feral pigs cross-contaminating their GMO algae and/or wetland biofuel feedstocks. Micro and macroalgae biofuel have always been the progressives’ big play. Not solar or wind…but algae.

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    • Force2bewreckin
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:00pm

      Gotty, you are a moron. These pigs were fenced in and cared for by this farmer. Taking out wild pigs is one thing but forcing a farmer to shoot his farm raised pigs or face felony charges is tyranny. You need to put down the government peep that you have your lips around and wake up to the fact that our government has turned into the likes of the USSR, China and North Korea. You are a huge stooge,

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    • The_Almighty_Creestof
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:48pm

      This resembles the idiocy of California and a few other states in their mindless hatred and banning of domesticated ferrets.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:51pm

      Fort Benning, Georgia is now ate up with wild hogs. They started out being fenced on a hunting preserve, but escaped back in the early nineties. Once they start to multiply, you can not stop them, you just try to contain them.

      The post hunting folks had to offer a bounty on them to lower the population. On a number of occasions while deer hunting, or hog hunting, I got in the middle of packs (sounder) of wild pigs. I shot them of all sizes. At twenty bucks a tail, I did not discriminate. I actually preferred the babies, as they were slower and easier to hit. I hit three in a matter of seconds with a bolt action 30 06. Not bragging, but was pretty quick and accurate shooting with a bolt gun. If hogs are around the hundred pound mark, and I wanted meat, I would harvest them. The real big ones, and the babies you just cut off the tail, and leave them lay. The coyotes and other varmints will have them eaten before the sun comes up.

      These pigs are not natural here, and do much damage. they aint like a pheasant or other game that has been introduced to the US.

      I guess that is a long winded way of saying “yes” I have and will shoot baby pigs. With a 30 06, the tail is about the only thing that gets salvaged. The last little one I shot was gutted and both eyeballs blown out of his little head from the 150 grain soft point. He was worth the 20 bucks though.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:58pm

      wild hogs spread disease to other game animals, and to farm animals. A deer will move into a corn field, and eat a few pieces of corn. hogs will move in, and destroy the whole field. The also root up the ground, eat all the snakes (which control the rodents which eat grain).

      See how much money is getting spent in the south to try to contain the wild hog populations that are destroying farms and ranches. It is better to wipe them out before they get out of control.

      Once they move into swamps, you about never get them out. They can eat about anything.

      They are like illegal immigrants. Start out with a few, and the next thing you know, there is a Mexican restaurant on every corner, or a mosque in every town square.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:00pm

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnqptBYfESI

      Check out this link, if you want to see hog killing at its best. For a little cash, you can go to south georgia and kill some yourself. The fellow (Rod Pinkston) that runs this business is a great guy. I used to shoot internation skeet with him, back when he was on the Army team.

      Enjoy!

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    • SgtB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:31pm

      @ RangerP, What you did was participate in the removal of a non-native species from the wild. What the DNR is doing is forcing the surrender of private property over to the state. There is one hell of a difference between culling a sounder of feral pigs that are destroying wilderness, and destroying personal property. If you can’t see that, then you truly are only a few brain cells from losing full motor control. But, then again, I have called you out on being a big gov’t progressive and a non-oathkeeper quite a few times by now.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:45pm

      SgtB

      You caught me dude, I am a closet progressive. On the weekends, I fly the space shuttle.

      Here is the real deal dude. People with chunks of land string up some cheap barbed wire, and then turn loose these russian boars. They charge money for people to come and shoot them as a guided hunting deal. They do not raise them like normal pigs or cattle. They keep them as penned wild hogs. These pigs escape, and when they do, you have a real mess on your hands. They destroy neighboring farms, and destroy natural habitat for wild animals.

      There are times when elected officials (voted by the population) do that which is good for the greater public. You may feel it your right to drive 130 mph, but I am thankful for a 65 mph speed limit. You may feel it your right to put up a few strands of barbed wire, and keep Bengal tigers in your yard. I would prefer the gov shut you down.

      Wild hogs destroy. If they were kept in a normal farm setting, then all is cool. If they are just being held in large chunks of open woods and such, then I know the real deal, and they will escape.

      I want a very small and limited government, not anarchy where everyone does as they please.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 3:56pm

      SgtB

      I will also say that if the good people of michigan prefer to have the game ranches, and vote as such, them I side with them.

      I am leary that the PETA crowd (and those type) has their hands in the mix on this. I do not hunt game ranches, but am not against those that do. If I had a cattle farm in southern michigan, I would be concerned with wild hogs getting loose.

      there are multiple sides to this issues, and I am not real read up on it.

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    • ProbIemSoIver
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:12pm

      When I saw this headline, I knew Liz was the editor.
      Bravo, Liz.
      theIt was nothing personal, yesterday.
      The Blaze just needs to balance the substantive news with entertainment.

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    • Marci
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:34pm

      They want to ensure no one has the means to provide for themselves. DNR is an unconstitutional arm that has harnessed as much power as the unconstitutional EPA.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:48pm

      @GOTTY
      Detroit… has one Island named Belle Island… before that called Pig Island… and before that called Snake Island, because it was full of Rattle Snakes… so, they put Pigs on it, and they ate the Snakes… then there was the Great Pig Hunt.

      Don’t do much Hunting in your area, Huh?

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:49pm

      How can non elected officials create laws with criminal penalties? Resist any DNR agent that attempts to search your property. This is a straight up declaration of war against the people.

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    • hidden_lion
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:56pm

      I go hunting every season, and I always keep a look out. I have yet to see any feral pigs (you allowed to shoot them as long as you have any hunting tag). If they were that big a problem they should be easy to find. DNR has no authority to declare a farm animals an invasive specie. When will enough be enough?

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    • officerbob61
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 5:03pm

      There are no native species of swine in North America. They were all imported from some where else in the past.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 6:23pm

      Honestly farrel swine have been shot for years by farmers, a bounty and by gov. agents, even by helicopter. They are out of control in the south and creeping north. They cause alot of damage and can genetically degrade domestic animals.

      However this last step may just be a training exercise to go after undesirables or third born children after Obama is relected. We are among the hidden.

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    • chazde3
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 7:45pm

      @Hidden_Lion: I lived my whole life minus the last 2 years in the farmland and wooded areas of Michigan. I have never once seen a feral hog. I have however seen wild wolves released into my area to help control deer populations, wolves that have wandered within a quarter mile of populated residential areas. Though I don’t doubt that many have escaped from poorly maintained game farms, I feel a standing order to all hunters to shoot any and all feral hogs on sight will greatly impact the wild populations. These poorly maintained game farms were the issue here, not responsible farmers trying to make a living.

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    • ak_wilderness
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 2:13am

      PETA is always on stuff that I think is stupid, why are they not on this?

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:01am

      Next up from the omnipotent government: Your dog and/or cat is an invasive species and if you don‘t put a bullet in it’s head, you’re going to prison.
      After the dogs it will be Conservatives, Libertarians, plain old Liberals who aren’t Communists, and anyone else who disagrees with them…

      Open your eyes to the raging wildfire that our government has become. It’s consuming your rights at an alarming pace!

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:48am

      I don’t understand people. Hogs (NONE of them) are ‘native’ to this country. They were all brought here from different countries. Even the ‘domestic’ hogs the big agri business produces are not ‘native’ to this country. The ‘feral’ hogs they are destroying are called ‘heritage breeds.’ All hogs will go feral if they escape and will do the same damage. All were raised for meat in their country of origin and brought here as a food supply. “Feral” simply means ‘wild.’

      You have feral cats as well. In Australia, they are a big problem! Tell me which ‘breed’ of cat they should destroy.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 7:58am

      RANGERP

      Okay, then instead of banning the swine altogether, how about the government that you want to protect you, just simply make more regulations on what has to be done to contain them instead of destroying, banning and criminalizing them? Some of these farmers weren’t game hunting farms, they were raising heritage breeds for sale as meat and, had their farms set up (as mentioned in the article) to prevent ‘escapes.’

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    • mamatango
      Posted on April 19, 2012 at 6:19pm

      This is NOT about Muslims or feral pigs! This is about eradicating healthy family farms with free range animals treated humanely. Big pork producers lobby for their big factory farms with white pigs living in deplorable conditions, and have less healthy food for us.

      These breeds of pigs grow a coat to withstand the frigid Michigan winters, and produce far superior healthy meat.

      Learn the truth,
      http://www.bakersgreenacres.com/

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  • Watcher1952
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:14am

    Wonder what the DNR will do when a fire fight breaks out……people are getting fed up with how the government can just either take your property away (eminent domain) or come on it and kill your livelyhood…….put you in jail and basically ruin your life

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    • justangry
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:34am

      If they’re unorganized, the state of Michigan will kill them. If the people organize, the feds will get involved and they’ll be hauled them off somewhere or killed.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:01pm

      I know of some areas in the northern lower .. that is exactly what will happen if they try to go in. I had a friend who was doing the census in the area .. and he was warned about them.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 9:40am

      Ted Nugent… had a bunch of these Pigs! So, you have not heard the last of this!

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  • harley3
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:12am

    and in a few more years, we will be putting Feral Swine on the endangered species list because have all been killed by government order.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:25am

      Harley, down here the feral hogs are taking over. It’s a big problem to be dealt with, not by government raids or penalties, but by the people. Don’t think they will ever go extinct but they sure are fun to shoot from helicopters.

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    • PJL
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:44am

      Fun to shoot from the air. Great hunters, you must be proud.

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:14pm

      @ PJL You must have been confused. Exterminating is not hunting. Do you let rats and roaches run freely through your home and property, or do you get rid of them? Same thing but it happens that going after the problem from the air is somewhat enjoyable. You bleeding heart liberals always try to condescend to render you‘re unwanted opinions don’t you? BANG! BANG! BANG! WOOHOOO!!!

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    • youdidthis
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:06pm

      me and mine enjoy hunting them on the ground…
      9mms
      .40 cal
      357
      44
      work quite well

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 5:28pm

      @ YOUDIDTHIS What I was talking about was herds of wild hogs. In the hundreds. I would hate to see someone who is just hunting for meat get caught with just a rifle. They are not only intelligent, they are cunning! And if you’re not careful you could end up pig poop! Yeah, for regular hunting take some buddies, dogs, ATVs, horses or whatever but plan tactically. Down in South Texas at least.

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  • RedDirtTexas
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:11am

    In Texas, ranchers have successfully saved three species’ of African Oryx from the very verge of certain extinction by raising them on game ranches. People pay to harvest them which creates the incentive for ranchers to keep them breeding and the population thriving. Well, down comes Friends of Animals, a Connecticut based group who oppose hunting anything, anywhere, and successfully had them put on the endangered species list to save their lives but killing the incentive to keep them, effectively ensuring the demise of the species. Liberals are just plain STUPID!

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    • biohazard23
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:26am

      I read about that not too long ago. And libs are supposed to be ENLIGHTENED??? I swear, they couldn’t possibly think themselves out of a paper bag, could they?

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:27am

      Extinction is part of the natural process, not a bad word.

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    • PaxInVeritate
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:46pm

      The_Jerk… Extinction is natural and so are wildfires. Saaay… let’s go back to the policy of letting wildfires burn until it burns itself out. if homes and business get in the way who cares , it’s natures call. Point of reason is this, while the feril pigs are distructive (particularly in the southern states) thy are not endangered nor I think will become ever become extinct. The African Oryx is endangered and landowners saw a way to prevent the extinction and make a buck doing it. In addition, it sounds like the feril pig owners in Mich. were being very responsible in keeping them within their property boundaries, knowing lose pigs sink ships. Either example is called proper stewardship of resources. Something the environmental naturalist and government know-it-alls don’t understand because the concept is very Biblical, and is something the environmental wackjobs and government know-it-alls don‘t or won’t acknowledge.

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    • TheWholeTruth
      Posted on April 18, 2012 at 8:08am

      PAXINVERITATE

      While I agree with most everything you said, I have to put in my 2 cents worth on the wild fires. Those weren‘t too bad when we didn’t try to put them out. They are a necessary part of the system. Wild fires burn out underbrush and open up areas for grazing for wild life. Since we’ve been preventing them the forests have grown up so much in underbrush that the fires become far worse destructively speaking. If the fires had been allowed to run their courses as they did before the fire would only have burned the brush, not the trees and could easily have been contained around homes. We tend to burn our farm off for that very reason. The brush and brambles burn, the trees do not and it fertilizes the soil with the ash creating healthier trees and thicker grass.

      Not all things thought to be ‘bad’ are to be avoided. If we had not allowed all the ‘filler’ to grow up by stopping fires, the fires we have today wouldn’t be so out of control.

      Just sayin’

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  • kchick
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:10am

    I hope they took all that meat to shelters to feed the poor and homeless ……

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    • RedDirtTexas
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:39pm

      Looked into it but of course there are too many hoops to jump through. Processing would have to be approved and inspected by local health departments. Quality would require a nod from the FDA. Plus the costs of refrigerated transportation from remote areas. I personally eat and hand out all that I can. The buzzards get the rest but at least they are protected from cars on the highway for a while. PITA would be proud of me for that.

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:19pm

      In my state it would have been.Then again in my state if they tried some horsesh** like they did they would have been the ones killed not the animals.Then again my state is much more rational and reasonable than they are.Michigan the land of the loones.Awhile back they attempted to fine a women for growing vegetable in her front yard.She had it laid out like a flower garden.Beautifully done.It was outside of detroit.Can’t remember the name of the town for the life of me now.
      I haven’t set foot in that state in decades and never will again either.Too many muslims and loones for my taste.

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  • JQCitizen
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:09am

    This issue is ENTIRELY about LIBERTY, (or the Lack of it). People should be able to Grow what they want, Eat what they want, Buy what they want.

    Except for hallucinagenic drugs, that is. When the government handles legal alcohol and it’s societal effects better, THEN maybe, I’ll consider the “Rights” of people who want to be STONED out of their minds.

    Maybe we can assign an Island, where people who want to be STONED can go to, like the Pleasure Island in Pinnochio. HEY, THEY ALL TURNED INTO DonkeyCrats!!!

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:33am

      If a state government wanted to regulate said halucinogenic drug, then by all means go for it. But the federal government has NO authority to ban or regulate it.

      Or pigs, for that matter.

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  • hillbillyinny
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:06am

    We farmers (of your or someone else’s food), need the help of “We the people. . . ” to continue to be responsible farmers who not only care for our animals and lands properly, but actually care about producing excellent food for you!

    When they “through the farmers off the farms,” as every socialist/communistic government has done(!), and give the responsibility to their “cronnie comrades” who know nothing about farming/animals/land, and who will follow, without challenge, regulations put in by the government that are not in the best interest of farming/animals/land/food OR profitability (which we don’t even have now!), JUST WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO EAT?

    On “farmer” visits to our representatives in DC (grassroots), every year have had to explain to staffers in Charlie Rangel’s office that even if the do not have any farms in Mr. Rangel’s district, he NEEDS to be interested in what affects farming, as even they as staffers, EAT!

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  • grimmy
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:06am

    For those of you critical of this, remember, there is a huge hog problem here (Texas) and all through the south.Banning these particular pigs i have to agree with, but i do not agree with the DNR’s tactics.If i was a rancher or hog farmer,and you “raided” my property,especially unannounced, for a nonviolent breakage of the law, it would not end well for some of these jack-boots,and me for that fact……

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    • code green
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:40am

      “ and for me” you are right when you think of the citizens murdered at Waco and Ruby Ridge. Well there I go on to another list again…………see ya in the re education camp GRIMMY..

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:03pm

      Oh stop with the waco and ruby ridge BS. Those people died because they were suicidal morons. They weren’t making some moral stand against the encroachment of their liberties. They were just brainwashed idiots in cults.

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    • doyley64
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:25pm

      @ rowgue
      In a free society they have the RIGHT to be brain washed or in a cult if they choose, as long as they’re not breaking the law.

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    • code green
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:43pm

      There were 12 children under the age of 5 at Waco that were murdered. Randy Weavers wife Vicki, was shot by a federal sniper holding their baby at Ruby Ridge.
      Since when is murder justified by people exercising religious freedom? Ever hear of the first ammendment?
      Forget and leave it alone hell.I want Janet Reno tried for crimes against humanity, and the FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi at Ruby Ridge tried for murder. But they are part of the Clinton machine and nothing further will happen.

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    • ezekiel22
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 4:21pm

      Rowgue you nothing of which you speak. I may not have agreed with these people yet they had their rights. I say had because the fed took them away by force of arms. You could be next in some near future.

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  • Sol Invictus
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:02am

    Glad to see that the hogs have got more sympathy on here than the Norwegian school children. Just demonstrates that Christians are a minority on this site – and if you disagree, read the comments on the other story first.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:41am

      Thats a good point! Obviously most of these people are clueless about how damaging these feral pigs are to farmers and ranchers and the environment. Or how out of control they are in other states. They are like a biblical plague in the south. As for me? Give me a good shotgun to get rid of little piglets, and a good 30-30 Marlin for their parents. If I lived there, I would kill them on site whether it was legal or not. Same as wolves!!

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    • AmazingGrace8
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:14pm

      People releasing pet pythons in Florida because they get big & can’t afford to feed them.
      People releasing pet North Vietnam pigs because they get big & can’t afford to feed them.
      A bounty on your head if you shoot a communist pig….as far as this admin. goes there is a difference between “free-feral” pigs &……..therefore pass a law against killing “commie-pigs” and round them up and build a home for them. Peta will accept donations for “name that pig” and will be sent a picture & profile of the pig’s daily life to each sponsor.
      Interesting that liberals don’t cry out because the piglets look like Bambi with all their baby-markings.

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  • spirited
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:58am

    Those young “feral swine” look exactly like Maremmani boars in Italy.

    They make for delicious consumption….yummy!
    –even the adults.

    >Just make certain to remove all of the long hair.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:56am

    .
    Mao, Hitler & Stalin starved millions during and after WW II……………

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:04am

      Control the food … control the people.

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    • justangry
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 1:01pm

      Yup… you ever see the Obama commercial asking people to donate to food banks? I thought to myself that if he actually cared they’d stop paying farmers NOT to grow crops.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:55am

    I think this is a matter of following the money. Somebody with money and power stands to gain even more by these acts. As the story says, 6 months ago these ranchers/farmers were doing nothing wrong. I would venture to say that there is some crony capitalism going on here. Something along the same lines as Buffett and his railroad interests.

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    • justangry
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Ag co-ops are big business. The family farmer is being replaced by Ph.D’s in charge of large corporations. I don’t like it.

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  • momrules
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:54am

    This is what tyranny looks like in action. Adenda 21.
    I found this article interesting.

    http://www.naturalnews.com/035596_Michigan_DNR_Rodney_Stokes.html

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    • Al J Zira
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:27am

      People don’t realize or become complacent to the fact that Agenda21 is the biggest threat to our independence in this country. One of the first right the founders knew we held was a right to own, sell and develop our own property. The DNR in Michigan and the EPA on the federal level have been given so much latitude over the last few decades to tell a person what they can and can’t do on their own property and people just look away as if it has no ramification.

      Take a look into your country and region. Find the regional development groups that are driving the Agenda21 home to every town in America. There are law suits trying to overturn these overbearing rules because city planners and politicians didn’t realize who they were jumping in bed with and where the money came from. People, it‘s not too late but it’s imperative you do something to fight this in your area.

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  • Cuthalu
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:51am

    Director Rodney Stokes just openly committed fraud. He stated that “Our intent from the beginning of this Invasive Species >>>Order<<<< has been to enforce the law while minimizing the impact on individuals and livelihoods,” An order, stutue, or regulation is not LAW. It has the color of law but is not law. Failure of him to distinguish between the two is tantamount to fraud.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:59am

      i wonder if the fact that there is a large muslim population up in dearborn michigan has anything to do with getting rid of the swine ??????????

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  • AzSage
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:43am

    What does it feel like? Recoil, that’s what it feel like. Yes, they are cute, but they also taste good.

    All kidding aside, these animals are prolific survivors. They multiply faster than rabbits and can destroy the environment very quickly. Look what’s going on in the South.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:50am

      Next… the Jews!

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    • SgtB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:57am

      Here’s a question for you. What is the animal that reverts to feral state faster than any other domesticated animal? The answer is the domestic pig. Within as little as a few weeks in the wild it can start to grow tusks and the animals all have relatively the same brain, sense of smell, hunger, ability to reproduce, and lets not forget that they are all of the same species. If this were practiced on the varying “breeds” of human, it would be called genocide. A pig is a pig is a pig. There is nothing special about these pigs compared with domesticated pigs. They are the same freaking species.

      Personally, I‘d have rather read a story where the rancher and his hands killed the 8 gov’t employed mafia workers for breaching his constitutional and natural rights. I would have really rather heard that story in all its’ gory detail than to have to hear again that one of our states is taking away the rights of the citizens residing there.

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:03am

      They are coming on peoples PRIVATE property and taking their property .. what about that is right?

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:43am

    OMG…. I can’t even…. What the HELL is wrong with people????

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:42am

    The Majority in Michigan… are Liberal oriented… even the so called Republicans! They think Obama is a nice guy… who has had bad luck; They think if it is was important… it would be on NBC News!

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:10am

      Sadly you are correct ..especially in the “urban area” .. Detroit, Flint, A2, Lansing, .. Grand Rapids more conservative as are areas in the north .. but even then .. many of the small towns have turned in to welfare towns . because there are no jobs and they are dependent on the state and federal government .. I was up last summer .. nearly every other tv ad was for a “free” government phone. Those of us who got tired of all the cr*p .. between unions and welfare .. left years ago.

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    • lukerw
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 12:02pm

      @CATB
      I’m on the Lake (Huron)… and stay for the View :)

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 2:21pm

      LOL .. you can alway escape .. by WATER ;-)

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:42am

    Oh, arrrgh, oh, those swine taste sooooo good. How about a big swine roast? Now if I was to be that kind of person, and I‘m also the kind of person who doesn’t eat the flesh thereof – then I wouldn‘t eat pigs because I’d be eating my kind.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:50am

      Likewise, since I believe in “One”God, and there are people who believe in two gods, those people who believe in two gods are unto cloven hooves, and therefore they have nothing for me to learn from because they are unclean with tainted reasoning.

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    • scuba13
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:55am

      Still a lunitic aren’t you Timmy?

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:34am

      Your lifestyle has obviously not done anything to improve you, intellectually OR spiritually.
      As mentioned above, your still a lunatic. Do you ask your “best man” what to eat too?

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  • drphil69
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:41am

    And more trampling of private property rights… soon the guns will be turned on the govt raiders.

    BE PREPARED.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:40am

    By the way, they wear brown shirts……. Just sayin.

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  • Bob_R_OathKeeper
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:39am

    Got to get rid of the pigs, the mooslims don‘t like them and the government definitely doesn’t want all those sources of food out there WTSHTF.

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  • JimL
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:39am

    What’s new is farmers/ ranchers no longer trust – DNR (All Science is Now Political Science).

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    • Rightallalong
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:19am

      As proposed by George Orwell in 1984, Science is owned by the elite …

      As spoken by O’Brien to Winston – “When we navigate the ocean, or predict an eclipse, we often find it convenient to assume that the earth goes round the sun and that stars are millions upon millions of kilometers away. BUT what of it? Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or disstant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?”

      Today science is anything that suits the government in regard to their newest regulation, and tomorrow the science can be completely different and we the people have become too ignorant and too weak to understand or even care about the contradictions.

      The environmentalist movement is about control …always has been and always will be. And those of you who dare dispute it will be ridiculed and attacked…

      Yes O’Brien, 2+2 IS equal to 5 …

      Also you can substitute O‘Brein with Bill O’Reily at any point and the character is true …BILLO is a tool of the progressive movement

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:39am

    sickening. tyranny. They need to bring charges against those who issued the warrants and anyone who took part in this raid. where is peta with the outrage? humane society? anyone that typically whines about animals?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:38am

    First they came for the piggies and I did not speak out because I was a cow….

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:33am

    Now we see the next move on part of the progressives; by using the excuse of feral hogs, they can enforce an elimination on the small farmsteads, and ensuring the larger ones succeed who are able to provide incentives to the ruling elitists of the left.

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    • JACKTHETOAD
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 10:45am

      I don’t know, Snow. It could be the start of a food grab. They’d really have us then.

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    • SgtB
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:02am

      The food grab started way back with wickard v. filburn. Apparently, it is illegal to grow your own feed stock for your own cattle because it causes you to not have to take part in interstate commerce and can so be controlled with the interstate commerce clause. That was the convoluted reasoning of a Supreme Court in the 40′s. I’d rather hear a story about how the guy used his ranch guns on the DNR than having been forced to shoot his entire ranch.

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on April 17, 2012 at 11:30am

      That‘s where it’s going, SGTB. Until the government pigs are the ones being shot, they will continue to tear up our small farms and ranches.

      Ironic, isn’t it?

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