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bison – we took the bison away – OK – with what you’re talking about there are some <br />groups that do that and they do – they call it, you know, regenerative agriculture – <br />they’ll bring a small area – bring some pigs in – fence it off and let the pigs really till that <br />soil and then they’ll move them on somewhere else and they’ll come back and replant <br />it. I don’t know, I don’t have stocking rate on that one but there are people who do, and <br />they do that. What I have seen from them, though, is that they always use domesticated <br />pigs so that they can manipulate those animals – the problem with the wild pigs is they <br />don’t want to be manipulated by people, right, so, getting them out of there again is <br />tough and it’s also tough to focus them just in the area you want them to be, which is <br />why the regenerative ag folks put up temporary pens – bring pigs in – let them do what <br />they do – till the soil – really, you know, forage around – and then they put them back <br />on a trailer and load their pens back up and they go to the next spot again. So, I think <br />the idea is an interesting one, but I think it’s difficult to focus, the pigs right where you <br />want them instead of them just wandering off wherever they’re gonna be. <br /> <br />RD: John, another question, ah, District – 1. There’s been some – with the cultural, ah, <br />importance of the pig – there’s been some talk of like can these animals be trapped and <br />put to a holding pen and then butchered and then that meat sold of which there would <br />be a market? <br /> <br />JT: Yeah, that’s a great question. We actually do that in Texas and, so it’s a, it’s a USDA <br />inspected food chain and so what we do is we have, and, of course, it’s the federal food <br />safety laws interacting with state laws, right? And so the way we do it – our Texas laws <br />allow for the trapping of these animals and the holding, the transmission to a hold <br />facility and then the slaughter facilities buy from that holding facility, so, you imagine, <br />it’s, you know, local folks, small trappers trap a few pigs, sell ‘em to the buyer, the buyer <br />sells them to the slaughter house and when they go through there – they go through it’s <br />USDA inspected – there’s a guy with a clipboard there – they do carcass inspections like <br />you always do for livestock and that animal get slaughtered the meat packed, and most <br />of that actually ends up either in Europe or it ends up in China – most of that market <br />over the years for us has been Europe, but you can also buy it in supermarkets and <br />various places. So there is a way to do that if the state laws allow it. <br /> <br />TWC: Taysen, District – 2 – one more comment/question. Kind of off the wall by being very <br />straightforward. <br /> <br />JT: Sure. <br /> <br />TWC: \[Unclear\] forest area that’s gonna be put up in development, right, and people start <br />building homes there. And the pigs were there first but now the residents are <br />complaining that, that’s a nuisance. Do you think that the people is the nuisance or the <br />pigs are the nuisance? They technically, going over reactive when that area they were <br />there first. So, I’m trying to like, um, say instead to like where we’re actually trying not <br />17 <br /> <br />