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Sodium nitrate, red dye

is added to meat

after animals die.

It can cover gray, black,

or the hues of gangrene,

many colors but not green.

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Footnote:

'Deer with old wounds develop abscesses filled with yellow, green or even black pus.'  

Gangrene in animals and their flesh can be

'pale to blue, purple, black, bronze or red'

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