As the article says, Black and Hispanic children living below the poverty line are disproportionately affected with 83% of children admitted for poisoning in NY from 1990 to 1997 being African-American or Latino. However, with out the use of these effective poisons the rat population will rapidly increase leading to even more hospitalizations from disease.
Of course, the rest of us who have an occasional rodent problem and use discretion with pesticides will pay the price and suffer property losses without effective solutions. As far as I know, cheese and peanut butter in mousetraps is still allowed until some environutter finds a species of mouse that is "endangered."
The more non-minority peasants who die, the better.
I bet with enough money I could find that there are Black and Hispanic kids allergic to peanut butter and cheese...
RATS protecting rats.
Then we will be seeing an increase of RATS which carry diseases and bite. Filth invites them. I know we pay a small tax monthly for rodent control, which is NOT effective at all here in Memphis.
It’s the government way Dave. Somebody craps their pants in Mongolia, and we all have to wear diapers.
Bring out yer dead...
In some quarters, rats are welcome guests. Witness here a late-arriving democrat scurrying to his seat.
looks like I will need to stock up on Just One Bite in addition to my hoard of contraband 100 watt light bulbs...*sigh*
‘Rat and government have become synonymous. By EPA regulation of ‘Rat poison, what’s the next step? EPA could then justify regulating Tea Party, Conservatism and Federalism.
No they want us to get the plague.
I don’t use poisons around here because of my dogs but those poisons are essential elsewhere.
They need to bring back DDT... when I used that back in the day.. nothing was around.
Just the EPS doing for rat-borne diseases what the prohibition of DDT did for malaria...
All based on junk science. And if the EPA thinks black and Latino kids are disproportionately affected by exposure to rat poison, wait till we see how affected they are by exposure to rats and rat-borne diseases.
I learned many years ago not to use poison when I had mice in the apartment where I lived at the time.
The poison works but the mice crawl into some human inaccessible space and die, then you live with the smell.
Set traps, they work too.
Bulldoze the EPA and salt the ground.
Pray for the Tea Party Congress
Since it’s been scientifically proved that Blacks and Hispanics are most affected, EPA should issue a regulation prohibiting Blacks and Hispanics from buying rat poison.
Name anything that’s been beneficial for mankind, and these stinking rats will eventually get around to trying to ban it or take the fun out of it.
What will the EPA do when unattended kids eat those nice curly Al Gore light bulbs?