Why is the AP — now, in November. . .

citing Yahoo —

for a story IMAO covered in a Straight Line back in February —

from a story in Popular Mechanics —

based on a story from MSN —

that is now no longer available?

Then:

Straight Line of the Day: The Only Logical Response to an Invasion of Highly Intelligent Invincible Super Pigs Is… – IMAO

Now:

A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is threatening to invade the US
AP via Yahoo | 11/22/2023 | Steve Karnowski

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that’s spreading out of control.

Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada’s leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet” and “an ecological train wreck.”

I did find this February article, though:

Destructive ‘Super Pigs’ From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S.

Smithsonian Magazine | Feb. 27, 2023 | Margaret Osborne

Notice this Ryan Brook popping up with the same quote:

“We have already documented pig occurrences less than ten miles from the U.S. border. Quite honestly, I think there have already been some in Manitoba going into North Dakota for the last five or six years,” Ryan Brook, who leads the University of Saskatchewan’s Canadian Wild Pig Research Project, tells Field and Stream’s Sage Marshall. “There is no physical, biological boundary at the U.S.-Canada border. There is hardly any kind of fencing to speak of. There’s a real risk of pigs moving south into the U.S.”

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“We should be worried, because we know the biology,” Brook told National Geographic. “They’re called an ecological train wreck for a reason.”

Eating less meat would be good for the Earth. Small nudges can change behavior
Associated Press | November 16, 2023 | Jonel Aleccia and Laura Ungar [Felix’s daughter?]

NEW YORK (AP) — Preston Cabral eats meat nearly every day at home, but his favorite meals at school are served on “Meatless Mondays” and “Vegan Fridays.”

“Today I ate chips, tangerines and this thing that looked like chili but without the meat — just beans,” the 12-year-old said after lunch.

Programs like these are among the few proven to work for one of the thorniest problems of the 21st century: How to get people to eat less meat.

Experts agree that the urgency of climate change and the demands of a surging global population call for an overhaul of how humans get their protein.

“There has arguably never been a more important time in human history to transform our food system for the sake of humans and nature,” a coalition of United Kingdom climate scientists concluded in a 2020 analysis.

That will require changing consumer behavior around meat, particularly in rich countries, experts said.

Younger people could be key. They may be open to new ways of eating because they’re more aware of climate change and the environmental costs of our current eating patterns, said Dr. Martin Bloem, an environmental health professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

But he’s worried about the pace of change: “I think it goes too slow.”

Changing human behavior, especially regarding something as important and intimate as the food we eat, is challenging, no matter a person’s age.

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Man on the right died from an unexpected recoil.