Game

Hunting boar is one of the chief delights and most passionate winter pastimes of Languedoc. My neighbour André Galy was often out twice a week throughout the season and would, with his syndicate and his dogs, track down and shoot up to 200 boar in a few weeks, which were shared out amongst the families and turned into stews, pâtés and saucissons secs. It has been estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of wild boar roaming France, while in Germany up to 200,000 are shot every year. In addition, all over Europe there are farms where they are reared for meat in strongly fenced pens, often covering large areas of maquis and woodland.