The Wild Pigs of Europe Are Highly Radioactive Because of Chernobyl, Study Says
www.popularmechanics.com
Don’t eat them.

Radroaches and radscorpions here we come!

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    22·
    1 year ago

    chalk-full of radioactive cesium

    Do they not have editors anymore, or are they just worked to death? I swear I see minor but annoying errors like this in a huge portion of online news media now.

    Nitpicking aside, I wonder if similar studies have been done on feral boar in the southwest US, where there has also been historical nuclear weapons testing?

    • NoufauxRiche@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      14·
      1 year ago

      So relieved to see someone else mention this, was starting to question whether I’m just being neurotic when little errors like this have me concerned about whether the underlying content is being thoroughly reviewed

    • dynamojoe@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Do they not have editors anymore

      Naah, they’re all in a rush to be the first to press with the Radioactive Pig scoop.

  • Guadin@k.fe.derate.me
    17·
    1 year ago

    Frustrating title. It’s not the wild boars of Europe, but of (per the article) Germany and Austria. And they actually talk mostly/only about Germany and Bavaria.

  • jantin@lemmy.world
    38·
    1 year ago

    I laugh my ass off reading this and thinking of all the old, privileged, annoying, self-important hunter clubs who boast endlessly about their vital ecological mission and benefits of eating game. Stuff your fat faces with cessium and I’ll just stand here and hope for as painful a consequence as possible.

    • IonAddis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious what country/culture you’re from that this is a significant problem in your life?

      It kinda sounds like you’re a medieval serf who got an arrow shot in your ass while poaching off the king’s preserve.

      …or like, you’re reading an awful lot of fantasy…and thinking 500-year-ago-problems are today’s problems…

      • jantin@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        I am from a country in Europe where “hunters” are the slapstick version of rich, douchey deep state. Tons of politicians, religious figures, business people are hunting for hobby and I wouldn’t bat an eye if they did it in compliance to law, common sense and rules of wildlife management. But they do not and are famous for:

        • blatant poaching

        • corrupting local forest management to allow for excessive shootings

        • the corruption at one point has reached the country parliament and a country-wide green light was given to cull boars because several sick ones were found in one region.

        • running events which have nothing to do with traditional hunting, nothing to do with wildlife management, but are instead shooting rows with random animals ran across a yard and being shot. Then their children (often as young as 7-8 yo) get to pose for instagram pics with fresh, bloody carcasses.

        • shooting people (both themselves and innocent mushroom pickers) and then getting acquitted after saying “I thought that was a boar” (the phrase is a meme now, but it still works in courts from time to time)

        • handling firearms in a way that would get any other person in jail (including neglecting psych checks, wrong storage, littering forests with lead ammo)