"You don’t eat blue meat."

A wild game trapper just south of San Francisco was in for a colorful surprise when he began processing some feral hogs he had caught earlier this year.

According to local news outlet SFGate , a number of the hogs — technically crossbreeds between domestic pigs and wild boars — appear to have had their muscles and fatty tissue stained blue after munching on a rat poison known as diphacinone.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed this in a recent press release , after the department's Wildlife Health Lab found traces of the deep blue pellets in one of the hog's stomachs. The CDFW went on to note that rodent bait is typically dyed certain colors to identify it as poison.

Unfortunately, the hogs don't seem to have gotten the memo. Local

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