The detection of African swine fever (ASF) in wild boar near the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has caused a major uproar: the economic impact could be enormous if pigs on farms become infected. Whatever the cause of this outbreak, the institutional and media response has immediately focused on measures that, implicitly or explicitly, criminalize wildlife—in this case, wild boar. This view, besides being simplistic and tragic, distracts from the real problem.