Miller said they will use the pesticide, Kaput Feral Hog Lure, as bait food laced with warfarin which is the same drug used to kill rats. It can also be prescribed by doctors, in smaller doses, to prevent blood clots
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So lets see these a holes are going to spray this bs, and if hunters hunt the hogs and eat it who else gets to be poisoned. Those who eat the meat wow yah don't say.
Other animals including your pets will get this poison
Plants will have the coating on them.....................
JESUS CRIPE , they will sell it as they always do Oh it's not harmful to humans or pets BULL SHIT!!!!
They said that about thousands of drugs in the past, they said that about DDT ( SILENT SPRING) later it causes birth defects .GRRRRRRrrrrrrr
You are lying about DDT and the book has been debunked many decades ago. Humans can eat pure DDT for years and there are no ill effects. However, the banning of the substance has COST MILLIONS OF LIVES. How do you justify those deaths when it is proven that used properly it causes no harm.
How do you propose to get rid of these animals costing millions in damage every year. Hunters cannot control them.
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"Miller's office
wrote in statement to Dallas' CBS11 they fully-researched the
Kaput product and considered the environmental impact. before approving its use on feral hogs
"Kaput Feral Hog Bait has been researched extensively and field-tested in Texas over the past decade in partnerships with various state agencies including TDA. Hogs are susceptible to warfarin toxicity, whereas humans and other animals require much higher levels of exposure to achieve toxic effects," the statement said.
The substance will only be available to licensed pesticide applicators, according to Miller's office, and dispensed in special hog feeders built for attracting the hogs.
"Warfarin has been studied extensively in animals and is practically non-toxic to birds. Due to the insolubility of warfarin in water, there should be no impact to aquatic life. Non-target wildlife, livestock and domestic pets would have to ingest extremely large quantities over the course of several days to reach a toxic level of warfarin in the bloodstream," Miller's office added.
The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has approved of the use of warfarin. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been consulted as well and they support this new feral hog control management practice.
"In general, secondary exposure to other animals is low because the levels of warfarin in target animals are generally too low to be toxic to either a predator or scavenger," Miller's statement read.
What about the nagging worry that a feral hog's meat is inedible? Some people say they taste just as good or better than standard pig flesh.
"Warfarin at 0.005 percent as a feral hog toxicant has been shown to have a low level of residue in hog meat, especially in muscle tissue, which is what humans typically consume. One person would have to eat 2.2 lbs of hog liver–where the warfarin is most concentrated in the body–to achieve the same exposure as a human would receive in one therapeutic dose of warfarin," the statement read."
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'Hog apocalypse': Texas Ag Commissioner approves killing feral hogs with poison
Try displaying the FACTS next time.