DON'T EAT THE BLUE PIG MEAT!

[thewayne]

You'd hope people would be smart enough to know that, but you never know....

Trappers and hunters in California are killing wild pigs, and upon butchering them, finding the meat inside to be bright blue! That would be a bit of a shocking discovery.

From the Gizmodo article: “I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company in Salinas, California, told The Los Angeles Times. “I’m talking about neon blue, blueberry blue.”

YEESH!

Apparently the pigs are raiding squirrel-control stations that have a rodenticide containing an anticoagulant that is dyed blue to make it obvious to its handlers that 'this is poison'. The dosage isn't high enough to cause problems for the pigs, but secondary exposure to people consuming the tainted pig meat could be problematic.

https://gizmodo.com/wild-pigs-in-california-are-turning-neon-blue-on-the-inside-officials-warn-2000639638

https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/033255/strange-wild-pigs-in-california---what-turned-their-flesh-blue

Comments

[kathmandu]

So in a way, the dye is doing its job: marking the tainted pig meat as "this is poison".

But also, if the pigs are getting enough of the rodent-bait to be dyed that thoroughly, it suggests a lot of the bait is not being eaten by the targets. Re-thinking their squirrel control program seems called for.

[garote]

Coulda sworn this subject line was you announcing some kind of new Pink Floyd compilation... ;D

[armiphlage]

Or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BinWA0EenDY

[pondhopper]

Hood grief!Have some people actually been stupid enough to eat bright blue wild boar?

[thewayne]

I'm unaware of people eating it, but you never know.  I'd think that most hunters would be smart enough to say "Blue meat?  Better call the professionals!"

[disneydream06]

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hugs, Jon

[kaishin108]

Watch out color blind Hunters! LOL!!!!!!

[thewayne]

Heh!

[silveradept]

One would hope that people would see the brightly and unnaturally colored meat and think that it's one of nature's ways of telling them to stay away, but I also know there are some people who are desperate enough (or cocksure enough) that they'd go through with it anyway, even if they knew it was a potential and serious health hazard to eat the meat.