Dude: You might be onto something... ;)
Posted on 09/18/2015 11:34:57 AM PDT by SteveH
BIZARRE images of the insides of a wild pig – which has FLUORESCENT blue fat – have emerged online leaving people scratching their heads.
Blue pigmentation is often caused by copper poisoning – but the land where the animal was shot only has mercury mine shafts.
The post's author – GlendilTEK – on imgur website wrote how none of the pigs shot by his in-laws on the Californian ranch had blue fat.
He wrote how the rest of the pig was "normal" – the meat, the blood, and the hide.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
I think it has been eating too much junk cereal.
Coffee?
Mercury??
(pig was shot in Morgan Hill, which is just south of San Jose)
Boo Berry!
As for the pig, I assume this is a National Enquirer type rag...... but thanks for introducing me to Billie Holiday! I’ve heard of her, but never really listened to her music. Beautiful (or I’m getting old).
eating a bowl of “Booberry” cereal will do that to you...
No you aren’t getting old, just showing you’ve gain TASTE! Her voice is pure BEAUTY!
Pig’s in....Space!
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There were mercury mines in the coastal mountains from Paso Robles north. Some were still active into the 1960’s.
Had a neighbor who worked in one in 1965.
Maybe mercury.
It does accumulate in fatty tissues.
Whether it would be blue, I don’t know.
I know copper and silver might make that color.
Silver in humans turns your skin blue.
Copper does similar.
Weird.
Buena Vista, and Klau.
I know that place very well, even though it's been 5 years or so since I've been there.
They will eat anything. Maybe got into some blue dye.
This is definitely due to the pig eating grain that’s had a rodenticide such as Diphacinone added to it. The poison has a blue dye added to it so that you can positively identify animals which have been eating it.
The hog must have been eating small amounts of it over a period of time in order to build up that much dye without dying from the poison.
Probably a fat soluble fluorescent co pins from a mushroom or lichen or something else the pig was eating.
Hydrophobic aromatic compounds often are fluorophores and if ingested will accumulate in the fat cells.
A little bit of chemistry will answer the question.
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