Maui News
By BRIAN PERRY
KAHULUI -- More than 100 people, most of them hunters, lined Hana Highway Wednesday to protest the use of unattended neck snares by private companies and government agencies to kill wild pigs in watershed areas.
They say the method of controlling the feral pig population is inhumane because of the length and amount of suffering endured by the animals."
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