Philly.com – HARRISBURG – After lifting a ban on porcupine hunting, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ran into a thorny problem: reports of a new black market for the rodents’ meat in Southeast Asia. Intelligence reports indicated that people were seeking Pennsylvania porcupines to sell illegally for human consumption in Vietnam, commission officials said. The eight-member commission responded last week by reversing course and ending a nine-month-old policy of virtually unlimited porcupine hunting during most of the year. Instead, it voted to impose a limit of 10 porcupines per hunter per year. The original limit had been six per day. Commission spokesman Jerry Feaser said that he could not comment on specifics of any investigation resulting in the change, but that no known porcupine trading was taking place.

And another chance for the state to raise revenue is squandered. How many times do we have to watch opportunity slip through our fingers? This is a huge victimless cash-generating monster scheme we could have put into action. Could’ve opened up immense international trade with an already firm stranglehold on the Vietnam porcupine meat market. Simple supply and demand.  Fucking trillions of đồng’s rollin back to PA.   I don’t really know what the exchange rate is over there and their money is probably made out of bamboo and old hooker panties but I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter.  With an open porcupine meat exchange the Eagles and Steelers would’ve been playing on golden fields next year.

How am I supposed to feed my family and millions of Vietnamese families hungry for that sweet, sweet porcupine meat while only allowed to kill 10 per day?  That shit doesn’t even make any sense.

via vice