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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Next, it will be automobile antifreeze.
EPA is jealous that germany is getting all this attention from humble e. coli.
They are going big time- yersinia pestis!
It’s time for the Viking Kitties.
Never had any success with rat poison. We exterminator sealed the house, set baited traps and that worked best of all.
Snap! Caught and killed that rat, no more rat. It was a big healthy one too. Bleh.
Don’t give them any ideas!
Thousands of children and accidental exposures? You’d think something like that would at least make the local section of some paper somewhere.
Ah, so Victor DID go out and build a better mousetrap! :-)
Thanks for the insight, and FRegards
“Since when did EPA become an omni-safety bureau? This should be a consumer products issue, at best.”
Because give a tyrant an uncontested inch and they’ll take the entire country.
I use electronic mouse and rat traps. They work.
What are these people thinking? Do they have any idea how fast these rodents reproduce? How much damage they can do to a homes wiring, plumbing and structure?
Let’s not even begin to consider the disease and food that will be consumed.
So, the flatbed trucks will all overheat on the way to pick up the bodies of the plague victims.
In the 1970s, the FDA banned Red Dye No. 2 for use in rat poison after some studies found that large doses could cause cancer in rats.
I live in an old farm house in a rural area. The electronic traps work great.
I'm really surprised that the government hasn't required a bittering chemical for it. I had a couple glasses and it was downright tasty OK, I just got a drop on my finger when working on my car and accidentally touched my mouth with it. When I tasted how sweet my finger was I realized it was antifreeze and spit it out. But it was tasty.
They're protecting the environment. You're just collateral damage.
Yeah they did. LOL Bait it with peanut butter, cookies, they can’t resist! :-)
We’ve got two cats. They’re OK at catching mice...they just don’t know how to kill them. The skinny one catches it, then the fat one walks over, beats up the skinny one, steals his mouse, and starts playing with it. Then he gets so busy growling at the skinny cat to stay away from “his” mouse, the mouse gets up and runs off.
}:-)4
Eventually they will get around to banning insecticides. Every ban is a loss of a little bit more of our liberty.
They are pushing, pushing, pushing until one day, they will wake up with 10,000 "Henry Bowmans" that don't have an off switch.
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