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When I am shopping in any store, Big Box or anywhere else, I hide glue strips, lethal traps with poison, any other items that will inflict horrendous results causing great suffering in rodents.

I guess my small act revolution is futile in the long run but I leave feeling like I’ve done something.

I never hide them where a child can find them but for whomever is seeking out these items, will have a devil of a time finding them.

Anticoagulants are used in to kill these animals. It is always fatal and one of the most inhumane ways to render death.

As a tech, I saw first hand what a poisonous meatball could do to a dog when someone threw it in their neighbors yard to silence a barking dog. 90% of the time, the owner got to their dog too late.

I’m am hopeful for this new program in Boston and hope it will forever change rodent control by non lethal means.

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That there has to be meetings and discussions on the use of non-lethal ways to control rodent populations says so much of reactionary human thinking. I mean, who is for the use of poisons other than the manufacturers of such chemical compounds? Surely, they do not have this much influence. Or do they?

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I'm not so sure that poison manufactures have significant sway over city officials, as much as city officials tend to opt for the cheapest remedy for any problem without thinking or considering the consequences...

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I was half kidding, Ed. I knew it was about saving money, no matter if it poisons every living thing around us, including us. Have we not learned what Rachel Carson said in "Silent Spring" and in other talks and presentations?

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It's nice to read news that doesn't sound like doom and gloom. Thanks for this, Ed.

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I have read the obscure paper in which a transmissible vaccine formulated as a sterilizing agent was first tested out in Australia to control rabbit populations. Then the same transmissible sterilizing vaccine was used in another environmental test on “pest” mammals somewhere, I forgot the details.

Then came Covid and the jab in humans. And birth rates are plummeting everywhere that populations have been heavily “protected”. Mere coincidence?

I absolutely and fully support humane methods of controlling urban rodent populations. However, I’m very skeptical of any method that works by “birth control” unless there’s an absolutely ironclad knowledge that it’s a “traditional” method that does NOT involve any genetic technology, nanoparticles, potential for transmission, etc.

Do you know what ingredients and methods are to be used in the proposed form of rodent birth control? Who developed it? Who funded it? How was it tested? Is it being used elsewhere? If I can conceive of this as a way to surreptitiously spread vaccines or any other substance among human or other animal populations, you can bet somebody else has already thought of doing that.

Oh, wait, I think Bill Gates and his GE mosquitoes beat me to it….

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Thank you, BumbleBee, for sharing your concerns and insights. It's understandable to have questions about the methods used in rodent population control, especially given the complexities surrounding new technologies. The proposed rodent birth control initiative in Boston focuses on non-lethal, poison-free methods that have been successfully tested in cities like Newton, Hartford, and San Francisco, achieving significant reductions in rat populations without harming other wildlife or domestic animals.

The initiative is supported by organizations like WISDOM Good Works, which emphasizes natural and community-safe interventions. These methods do not involve genetic technology or nanoparticles and are designed to be environmentally friendly and humane. I am in the process of writing a follow up article on this effort, and will try to get more detailed answers to your questions. Stay tuned.

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OK, thank you for your reply! I will be very interested to learn more. I love how it sounds, but, frankly, it also sounds too good to be true. Especially the humane part. But I’m willing to give it a listen. Wonderful if it is what it claims to be, with no funny stuff.

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Illegal in civilized countries

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And get ready for bubonic plague. It’ll then the crowd out.

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