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USDA Discontinues Use of "Cyanide Bombs" in Idaho After Boy and His Dog Are Sprayed

posted by on Sunday April 16 2017, @05:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-with-nerve-gas! dept.

takyon writes:

The USDA will stop using sodium cyanide "bombs" in Idaho (at least temporarily) following an incident that put a 14-year-old in the hospital and killed his dog:

About a month after an anti-predator device spit sodium cyanide in the face of an unsuspecting boy and killed his dog, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it is ending its use of the M-44 mechanisms in Idaho indefinitely.

"We take seriously the incident in Idaho," Jason Suckow, western regional director of the USDA's Wildlife Services agency, told conservation groups in a letter Monday. "We immediately responded by removing all M-44s from the area, initiating an inquiry into the incident, and launching a review of current [Wildlife Services] operating procedures."

Suckow noted the agency has "removed all M-44s currently deployed on all land ownerships in Idaho" and has refrained from planting new ones.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday April 17 2017, @03:36AM (4 children)

    by sjames (2882) on Monday April 17 2017, @03:36AM (#495083) Journal

    In other words, you are re-writing history by claiming nobody really cared all that much. Not even enough for a little food safety theater.

    That really doesn't jibe with the known history. That's the part where I suggested you might have better luck changing your model rather than trying to re-write history.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @03:46AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @03:46AM (#495088)

    So you choose to disengage by completely dismissing the answer I provided.

    Continue to assume that historical fact is truth verbatim out of your government-supported educational material, and continue to insist that government manages the affairs of people better than the people themselves do when force and fraud are not tolerated.

    • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday April 17 2017, @04:00AM (2 children)

      by sjames (2882) on Monday April 17 2017, @04:00AM (#495091) Journal

      I choose to believe the many historical sources that jibe well with human nature rather than accept your alternate history which you offer with no citations whatsoever, yes.

      This is very much consistent with my reaction to flat earthers and fake moon landing nuts.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:57AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:57AM (#495116)

        By dismissing the idea that the individual himself is the proper person to decide the management of his own affairs [soylentnews.org], including those of voluntary commerce, you are left supporting the only alternative of de facto slavery. Congratulations on being with the majority of human history on this one.

        • (Score: 2) by sjames on Monday April 17 2017, @02:48PM

          by sjames (2882) on Monday April 17 2017, @02:48PM (#495268) Journal

          Actually, what I reject is the idea that I should take an ACs word for an alternate history supported by nothing. I rtefuse to hand my agency over to a kook and you take offense.