sodium nitrate

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To Poison Feral Pigs, Feds Turn to ... Bacon Ingredient?

Sodium nitrate is pretty poisonous to destructive, prolific porkers

(Newser) - A preservative used to cure bacon is being tested as poison for the nation's estimated 5 million feral hogs, which cost the US about $1.5 billion a year—including $800 million in damage to farms. Hunting and trapping won't do the trick for these big, wildly prolific...

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