NZ activists continue their campaign to end government’s use of 1080 for pest control.
The Smarden 1080/1081 poisoning is important as an incident because it led to the banning of this chemical in the UK and later the EU. A ‘large number’ of rats and other animals died as a result of a poisoned pony used as pet food and at least 20 horses and cattle died as a result of the contaminated water near a 1080 pesticide factory (there are two articles here):
The forgotten story of how a toxic spill and a book launched Britain’s environmental movement
Today we take for granted an awareness of environmental matters, but this was not always the case. It could be said that in Britain there was a moment when that environmental consciousness arrived. When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division of Rentokil Laboratories. The…
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Shhhh. Do not talk so loud! Trump will wann bring it to America to kill whats left of the endangered species and help get rid of aome poor peoples kids.
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Gloria, at the moment NZ imports their 1080 from Tull Company in Alabama. We’re their main customer as it’s banned in most of the world.
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That makes sense. They still have a lot of arsenic stuff in mexico. They banned it in the usa but trump will probly make arsenicals legal in usa again like asbestos. Trump is allowing them to use a special stabalized cyanide in the west to kill coyotes so he may allow 1080. Murica is a chemical radionuclide sewer. The radionuclides are the worse. You should get your govt to ban 1080 though
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