Posted on 06/07/2011 10:18:53 AM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of “the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products” to residential customers. The goal is to better protect children, pets and wildlife. “These changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rat and mouse control products and also to protect household pets,” said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The EPA also will require that all rat and mouse poisons
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Ban EPA right back!!
By all means, let's F U.S. citizens one more time.
I am continually amazed at the measures government thinks it needs to take on behalf of children.
If folks can't take care of their own children, they shouldn't have them. It's called, thinning the herd.
When I had young children in the home, I child-proofed it as much as possible, and kept an eye on my kids at all times when they were under my care.
All the problems we have today, and this is what our leaders spend their time on. It's further proof that we could lop off major portions of our public employees and still survive. Perhaps thrive would be a better term...
What is a family to do if someone in the household is seriously allergic to cats?
We get mice during rain in the summer but rats only in winter.
Yup, and a few outside cats!!!
Hokay... so the banned stuff can be bought in big boxes and bags. An answer only a bureaucracy could love. Now maybe if 100 watt bulbs could be had in quantities of a gross?
Alternate headline, for an alternate (sane) universe:
EPA Bans Humans to Protect Environment
Cats are good, but an owner of a Jack Russell terrier told me that their dog is a better mouser than their cats.
They've already banned two excellent ones, Dursban and Diazinon.
Not much of a debate. We have three distinct branches of government so as to limit the power of any one branch. Our Constitution is explicit:
Executive - executes laws
Legislative - makes laws (they were also intended to be the most powerful branch yet slow and lumbering so as to protect liberty)
Judical - decides if laws are Constitutional or not
The executive has no authority to make laws.
The legislative cannot delegate its authority to the Executive.
And DDT.
We were using poison to kill gophers on our acreage with limited success until a pair of nesting red tailed hawks took up residence in one of our largest oak trees. The gopher population has diminished for some reason.
Funny! I have 2 cats too. The skinny tabby female is great at catching (and killing) gophers; waits all day if necessary staring at the holes in my lawn and then gets them. One morning she killed two.
The fat male cat is really stupid; he thinks he can catch gophers by sticking his arm down the holes. I just know the gophers are laughing at him.
Kids are going to die when the rats chew on the wiring and buildings burn down. And when they eat up the heating ductwork, the kids will freeze. Let alone the diseases.
The EPA administrators may not realize how hard it is to get rid of rats once they get started, but they make enough to hire professional exterminators, so they don’t have to worry.
The problem I had was the darn mice went up and over any traps I laid. The little monsters are smart. The dog ignored them, some help she was.
So I checked around the internet and found some natural repellants, so that I didn't poison the stupid dog.
Baking soda and pure peppermint oil. The baking soda apparently does ugly things to the inside of a rodent and they go off and die, and rodents don't like the smell of peppermint oil.
Within 3 days, I never saw a mouse in the house again.
We won't discuss the bird that got in last week though. :-)
That makes sense, and neither of ours did. Our fat cat is the son of a pampered pedigreed Maine Coon show cat and we got him at four months old; he’s never had to deal with mice until this year (he’s 8). Our skinny cat is also a Maine Coon but he was rescued from a breeder who got overwhelmed and ended up with 30+ cats; he was low cat on the totem pole and had very little socialization. We got him at 11 months and he didn’t even have a name, hadn’t been groomed or fixed, and had lost his tail when a door got slammed on it. They’re both great cats, very sweet and loving in that offbeat Maine Coon way, but they were never trained as mousers; they go by sheer kitty instinct about catching a mouse, but once they do, they tend to slowly beat it to death playing with it instead of killing it quickly.
}:-)4
Never had to deal with mice, but would seriously consider a cat if necessary. Maybe a Maine Coon or something of the big American breeds. Rats - well, our late lab took care of that problem.:) Much cheaper than vector control.
Ben too!
EPA=Extreme Protection Agency. Anyone who lives in rented old buildings in the inner city known how necessary such usually are. Many times I have prayed and pulverized many packets of mouse poison and mixed it with a little peanut butter when the invaders would not eat the pellets, and they all died, thank God.
Years ago bedbugs were killed using sulfur candles, but these and many other old remedies also are illegal. Perhaps banning boric acid will be next.
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