DON'T EAT THE BLUE PIG MEAT!
Aug. 10th, 2025 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneYou'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
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
