"The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is engaged in what can only be called an avian holocaust through its Bye Bye Blackbird program that has poisoned tens of millions of birds over the last decade."
Red-winged blackbirds in flight. (photo: Danny Vowell/Kentucky New Era/AP)
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I don't agree with poisoning, trapping and so on, unless there's a damn good reason for it. There's a lot of it in New Zealand, where I live, but it mostly comes down to the sins of our forefathers, who introduced a lot of pests that then went on the merrily wreck the ecosystem. This isn't the fault of the rats, possums etc, but what can you do? Let them wipe out the native fauna, or control them? Unfortunately, "control" means "kill" in this case...
But as far as vaccination goes, do you want the return of smallpox and polio and all the other diseases we've managed to control? Yes, we kill those germs, or we get our immune systems to, but that's where I draw the line. Poisoning viruses is fine by me, they don't suffer and if we don't vaccinate, we do - or the most vulnerable amongst us do, children and old people. To stop vaccination would be mass murder.
my house - kill everything - after you will get rid of woodpeckers - you will get carpenter ants infestation - than you will kill them with pesticides - get cancer - get million dollar US medical "treatment" - declare medical bankruptcy - die at sixty on the street - what a country!
We had a mysterious and large avian die-off just South of St. Louis on New Years eve. They attributed it to fireworks waking the birds and crashing into things in the dark. This was to have caused massive internal bleeding that led to 1,000s of carcasses everywhere
The whole fowl story sounded foul to me, and then the Arkansas story came to light.
In Arkansas there were numerous tornadoes, tornado sightings, and much atmospheric chaos. One must ask themselves why birds would be poisoned under such conditions, and why would they get pulled into the night at the time of celebration and then fall to the ground all at once.
Let us know what you find out about the incident outside St. Louis. Most of the time these poisonings occur without any fanfare.
Over population is a growing concern throughout the U.S. when it comes to certain animals and birds, for a very good reason: disease and destruction. I live in an area where starlings especially fly in groups of thousands, roosting in trees in neighborhoods where their droppings cover the ground. Histoplasmosis has caused the deaths or injury of many children who play in that muck and fungus. A close friend went blind from the scar tissue in her eyes caused by that fungus as a child. The feral hog populations are increasing and it isn't just farms that they dig up. In some states it is difficult to hike without the threat of a defensive hog.
Each animal has the potential for overwhelming even their own population and contracting disease that runs through the group.
There are many reasons for a growing concern over animals and their interaction with human beings. A necessary balance must be arrived at especially in light of the growing human population, but common sense and science must be utilized in understanding the entire environment, not hysteria and over generalizations . There ARE very real dangers in unbalance. All citizens must get involved for their own welfare as that of wildlife.
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By DianeDi
I agree senseless killing is wrong. I feed birds in my yard, even when the redwings come and eat $15 worth of food overnight. But I also relocate or shoot woodchucks and opossums who eat my fruit trees and vegetable gardens. I keep a cat who murders several hundred rodents and half a dozen birds each year. Without him, I'd have rodent damage to my house insulation, wiring, and framing.
One man's pet is another man's pest.
Cheers.
Brown-headed cowbirds (1,046,109 killed by USDA)
European Starlings (1,259,714 killed)
English sparrows
The native cowbirds are "brood parasites," laying their eggs in the nests of other birds (e.g., warblers), which raise the cowbirds' young at the expense of their own offspring. The starlings and sparrows are carelessly introduced invasive species that compete intensely and extensively with native cavity-nesting birds (e.g., bluebirds), whose numbers are declining as a result.
I am completely in favor of killing and/or preventing the reproduction of cowbirds, starlings, and sparrows, as long as this does not further threaten any of our endangered or declining native bird species. Thank you.
And again - scientifically - the disease getting from wild animals is 1% ? compared to cancer from chemicals, cigarettes, firearms - it is US - not animals.
Their predators are also killed -
Do you think that herbicides/poisons kill ONLY English sparrows?
This "technology" control is spiraling out of control.
Wildlife scientists are STUPID - like telling me that they have "SAFE" herbicides that kills only blackberry.
The number one pest is Homo Destructor - we need to reduce its numbers to 1900 levels.
ARMADILLOS, moving north, digging up everything in their path.
STARLINGS grouping in the thousands, if not millions.
Thousands of WILD HOGS, digging up and killing eggs of amphibians, reptiles, and some birds, wildflowers.
DEER becoming overpopulated, infected with disease, causing wrecks on highways, eating everything, dropping diseased ticks.
Don't forget rabies.
And this is not in highly populated areas, but very often is. It really isn't simple.
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Tomorrow, what will be your target? Maybe, you'll kill yourself...
Many thanks to natural news for keeping the list of murdered at their site - the USDA has indeed removed the incriminating records.
Are we to allow our native flora and fauna to be killed off by the overbreeding/population of invasive species? Let's rule out the Vegan/Vegetarian thing all together since I think it's a load of crap to try and push this sort of belief on someone else... this article has nothing to do with eating animals.
If we allow invasive species to wreak havoc on our environment then I can guarantee you that these same people complaining now about this "murder" will also be complaining about the invasive species once they've taken over.
It is a shame that "innocent" species are taken in events like this but I'll take a 99.1% kill of intended species any day. The needs of the many should STILL outweigh the needs of the few... I know this is a difficult concept for the younger generations to grasp since they've grown up in a "it's not my fault" era.
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