Q: Bird poisoning
Recently, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture sanctioned the poisoning of hundreds of birds. The result was hundreds of birds dropped from the sky in Somerset County, NJ. If a local citizen did this on their own, they would undoubtedly have been charged with animal cruelty. Is this ok (i.e., HUMANE) just because the Govt. Ok'd it?
Jan 29, 2009
I, too, would like to know under what authority the federal government can conduct a mass poisoning to benefit apparently only one farmer. Agriculture is a huge, powerful lobby in our country. The USDA all too often is in service to the lobbyists of agribusinesses, at the expense of small farmers, the public, the environment,and animals.
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