This Little Piggy

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I've mentioned before that the Feral Hog population is a destructive, mass-producing critter that can and does destroy property, farms and crops. 35 states but particularly Texas has to remove 70% of the hogs every year (6 million) via trapping, aerial operations or recreational hunting in order to prevent over-population. Well now they've come up with a new plan to kill them off. They will be using a bait with sodium nitrite in it that will cause the hogs to faint, lose consciousness and quickly die. Does this chemical sound familiar to you? It is a preservative that's used to cure bacon, sausage, blended with salt and a multiple of other uses as food additives for humans. Now considering everything we buy today is loaded with 'salt', that's kinda scary. For the hogs, sodium nitrite reduces the amount of oxygen in their hemoglobin and that's what causes them to faint. Anybody feeling light-headed lately? I don't know if I'm on board with this latest testing on hogs. Being the conspiracy theorist that I am, maybe this field-testing isn't just being used for the Wild Hog population. Just saying.