This Is What Pesticides Do to Wild Boars

[rivcuban]

Wild Pigs Turning 'Neon Blue' in California Triggered Warnings : ScienceAlert

[ImStillMags Mags]

Game hunters found startlingly 'neon blue' flesh inside wild pigs in California in 2025, prompting advisory statements about potential contamination.

"I'm not talking about a little blue," Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company, told Salvador Hernandez at The Los Angeles Times.

"I'm talking about neon blue, blueberry blue."

An investigation by local authorities found that the dramatic color change was caused by rodenticide poisoning, prompting them to issue a warning throughout Monterey County.

Rat poisons containing the chemical compound diphacinone are often sold dyed blue for identification. The compound's use has been highly restricted in California since 2024.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuyPJ6WXDM

[rivcuban]

I'm sure Trump will give the makers of the rodenticide a tax break.

[BEZARK]

Poisoning the wild hogs is generally a good thing.

Except the effect on scavengers.
 

[ImStillMags Mags]

IF they are invasive, poisoning them is not the answer.  The state should put  a bounty on them and have the meat inspected, butchered and given to food banks and charities, etc.

[BEZARK]

 Very few are live captured where you could do that.

About the best you can do here is shoot them as pests and give them to neighbors who know how to deal with the meat.