California Issues Warning After Trapper Finds Pigs with “Slushie Blue” Colored Meat

By Sage Marshall – MeatEater

Well, this is strange: blue meat has been turning up in wild hogs killed in California.

Dan Burton, the owner and operator of Urban Trapping Wildlife Control, first noticed the unusual tissue in feral pigs back in March, when he began trapping the hogs on a commercial farm in Monterey County, a known hot spot for non-native wild hogs in the state. The property was on the edge of the Salinas River, and the pigs entered the ag field from the riparian habitat.

Burton donates meat from the pigs he traps under depredation permits. But as he was cutting some of these pigs open, he noticed something was amiss. “The fatty tissue was a fluorescent blue,” he told MeatEater. “It reminded me of a slushy blue. It was very obvious something was wrong with this animal.”. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY