Recent events in Devon have made me wonder if I am becoming an aging grumpy: my incredulity is genuine. How can the media report the escape of wild boar without even a passing mention of the glaringly obvious question? I have bought wild boar products occasionally - and now it transpires that I have been completely naive to imagine that the animals were as described: wild. Is this complete ignorance on my part? Does everyone else already know that wild boar are not wild at all, but in fact the complete opposite of wild, namely penned in? Is it too obvious to mention? Perhaps only the British would put up with such a deceit of nomenclature. I know Yorkshire pudding isn't all made in Yorkshire. But surely it isn't transparent that wild boar is farmed. Please tell me that I'm not a complete dunderhead. If I do turn into a grumpy old man, animal liberation will be high on my list of invectives.
Simon Dobson's occasional musings, invectives and miscellaneous nonsense