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2011-01-20 -Obits-

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Posted by Hupirong Chinens6218 2011-01-20 20:46|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Years ago, the federal government had a coyote eradication program, using poisoned bait.

Few Americans have heard of the U.S. Department of Agricultures Wildlife Services (WS) program. Even fewer are aware that their tax dollars subsidize the killing of millions of animals every year under this program; between 2004 and 2007, WS killed 8,378,412 animals (Keefover-Ring 2009). Their crimes? Preying on sheep and cattle, eating fish in commercial aquaculture facilities and seeds in large-scale sunflower plantations, defecating on municipal lawns and golf courses, creating a "nuisance," and flying in the pathway of airplanes and airport runways to name but a few.

While the vast majority of species targeted by WS are birds (more than 4 million in 2008) the agencys predator control program has been the focus of intense public and scientific scrutiny over the last fifty years as increasing scientific research calls into question the efficacy, ethics, and economics of killing tens of thousands of native carnivores at the behest of livestock ranchers and other agriculturalists.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-01-20 21:41|| 2011-01-20 21:41|| Front Page Top

#2 ....meanwhile food riots continue around the planet.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-20 22:18|| 2011-01-20 22:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Starlings, like European or House Sparrows, are vile, vicious, murderous beasts. Their relationship to T.rex is very clear. Both species, imported numerous times during the 19th century in a misguided, romantic attempt to set up "Shakespeare gardens" with the birds and plants the playwright mentioned, spread rapidly across the continent, displacing native bird species by out-eating and directly killing them. I have absolutely no problem with the USDA poisoning a flock that had overstayed its welcome.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-01-20 23:36|| 2011-01-20 23:36|| Front Page Top

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