“According to the Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, the law is simply a ploy to bow to special interests such as Michigan Pork Producers Association by making it difficult for local farmers to raise hogs.”

Why should this be any different, the GUV is regulating EVERYTHING aren’t they???? The Family Unit, Small Farming, killing Mom and Pop Shops, Oil Pipe lines that may create jobs, pushing Big Pharma down our throats, pushing stoopid alternative energies in an economy, when oil and gas is high enough__Yepper, Bam Bam’s a hero and batting a thousand!___NOT!

Well people all i can say is they will continue to pass these kind of laws as long as you sit down and let them do it. Until you people stand up and shoot those federal agents when they come raiding your farms, they will not stop, never. Keep your pigs, stay on your farms and wait, when they come for you ambush them. Unite with your local neighbors and make sure you each others backs and when they come ambush them from the front and attack from the back!! Together you will win, together we need to fight tyranny now, NOW, not tomorrow. Once they get a taste of their own medicine they will slow down. It is time to fight people, it is past time. It is your land people, you pay your property taxes, dont let these people do this to you! There is only one to win this fight people, and that is to KILL….

I guess by the time you read this we will all be felons. What bunnies could I raise and let them go into the wild? How about ducks? Wild chickens? Wild cows, horses? Wild sheep, goats? Any other creatures we could turn out into the wild?

pure michigan Ha Ha Ha

there shouldn’t be any place for law makers to kill someone’s property.
And going on how a pig looks is just down right retarded.
a farmer knows his own property and how best to take care of it.

That is a truly newsworthy story. And such a shame. Shame on you Michigan.

I think that you people might google ‘feral hogs’ and find out just what you’re criticizing.

Agreed B2! If you want to help and don’t want this to come to your state and infringe on your rights, give a small donation. Even $5 would probably help the poor families fighting for their livelihood! Let’s put our money where our mouth’s are

They are just taking the steps through Socialism to attain their ultimate goal of Utopian Marxism!

How about helping farmer Baker with a donation to pay for the legal fees he’s facing?
Go to http://www.bakersgreenacres.com and press donate!

County Sheriff’s and deputies (s/b protecting the farmers rights) and outraged farmers should gather at the farm(s) and meet the State’s Department of Natural Resources at the gate with arms in hand. The states s/n be given the power to ruin the livlihood of law abiding citizens to appease big business lobbiests. We the People need to take a stand and take our rights back.

I glad to see the hog farmer want to fight back.

The big problem that I see with this is they are talking about feral hogs , which are hogs in the wild. If they the hogs are contained in a pen or fenced in area ,and being fed and raised by the farmer , how are they considered feral? They also talked about hybrids , which is a crossbreed . When you cross one breed of pig with another , you never know what it is going to look like . I raised show pigs at one time , and believe me , you can get some odd colors , and pigs that look like some of what they describe in the article .I am no fan of feral hogs , but I cannot see destroying a person’s living becauseof a what if. How are they going to determine if a pig is carrying a feral gene ? Are they going to do blood tests first to make sure , or just go in and kill them be done with it. What about the commercial pig farms , are they going to recieve the same treatment? You can bet that at least some of their hogs will have feral genes , so they can get size and certain other attributes to make them grow faster and bigger , or will they be excempt because they are part of a corporation , which will probably happen , don’t want to upset there money tree.

All my life the only solution being offered up is to get out and vote . Well I do and things only seem to get worse decade after decade . Seems the real perpetual war is against the common man . Didn’t we go through this once before ??????

Just another day in the neigborhood of enviro-whacko’s. So, assuming this law made sense, which of course it wouldn’t, they’re saying that if you found a ‘feral pig’ and domestiicated it, you’re ‘harming the environment’? But having the beasties running wild thru the woods, destroying the landscape is a good thing? Yeah, there’s some special interest back room deal going on here.

this is what happens when you keep these same politicians in office
the go power crazy . they be come dictators and they will do anything
for big company’s . this why you don’t have mom and pop stores and
the same with farms . this why you need to get people to vote and
vote these dictators out of office . if not they will make stupid laws that
will hurt a lot of people down the road . so you got to vote them out look
at Washington with Obama care . the democrats were bribing each other
with tax dollars . they should be in prison for bribery but there above the
law . and we don’t have a say in government any more that’s when you
vote them out . don’t give these politicians a life time job it go’s to there
heads . then they start to control you with lie’s .

HAWGWASH!!! OBAMANOS!!!

Michigan has become a haven for muslims in the United States. Muslims loath pigs. Do the math.

It’s interesting that scripture might be used to actually protect pig farming. Jesus didn’t eat pork. Jesus didn’t have any good things to say about pork. In states that don’t have hunting or restrict hunting, ferral pigs are proving to be a real problem. Here in Georgia, we have a real problem with them in areas we are trying to preserve for natural species.

How a pig looks is a good indication of just how wild it is. Don’t get me wrong. Nothing tastes better than lean bacon, cooked on a camp fire, offered up from a tusker popped with a flintlock, charging out of the brush from twenty feet away. Umm, Umm! What’s for breakfast?!!!

I always thought that Michigan like was a foreign country………… I was correct, but I didn’t think it was a Fascist State. This is only the beginning of Constitutional rights being trodden into the dirt.

This is just another sign of big government against the individual’s rights
Where is this going to stop?
I would stop them from destroying my livelyhood at any cost!!!
Who are they that they think they can do this without full compensation at the very least?

Good luck in your fight, we will be watching and praying for your protection.

When the come to steal your livelihood use Exodus 22:2

Well now…..a real reason to pass the NDAA!
Let’s target hawg farmers with our predator drones.
Those hillbilly’s are definitely a bigger threat to the populace than the EPA,FCC,FDA,etc.,etc.
YEEEEHAW!C’mon boys!
Let’s go[expletive deleted]up farmer Bob’s life.Heck he is just anuther jacka$$,that we can use for target practice,while we train to kill other ordinary Americans!
That way when only the citiots are left we can watch them eat each other!.
What a plan for tickets to the end of the world.
We can just sit back drink beer and watch how stupidly the gubment spends all our futures.
Anyone else toss in for the kegger?
Might as well,,,,,it sure doesnt look like anyone will leave their comfort zone to do anything else about it.
-CC.

Another governmental over-reach of power to satisfy the needs of a special interest group. This only goes to show how much greater the desire for further “power & control” has grown to even on the state level. People and the economic impact this may have are of no concern – upcoming elections are. Special Interest Groups need to be placed on the “Endangered Species” list immediately!!

So lets see. We are supposed to protect species cause they might go extinct and now we are told that we must kill species instead. There is evidence of insanity here.