He doesn’t need it anymore, he says, after finding “a new weapon in the long-standing war on the destructive feral hog population.”It’s called warfarin: the pesticide with war in its name. More than 3,000 have signed the Texas Hog Hunters Association’s petition against Miller’s chemical war. Marketed as Kaput Feral Hog Bait, the product is comparable to rat poison — with similar effects. (Eric Gay/AP)As for the hunters’ objections, Miller said a blue dye will make poisoned hogs obvious long before they reach the oven. As precedent, he pointed to Australia, where he said warfarin “was used for many years” on feral hogs.

Source: Washington Post February 23, 2017 11:32 UTC