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Every single day roughly 37 animals die from predator poisons, and those are just the ones that get counted. We can stop the slaughter.
These toxicants, meant to kill native carnivores such as coyotes on behalf of the livestock industry, are indiscriminate and deadly. Historically they have been used in biological warfare and yet they are still legal in the United States.
Fortunately, Congressman Fazio (D-OR) and Congressman Campbell (R-CA) have introduced legislation (HR5643) to ban the two worst of the worst poisons, sodium cyanide M-44’s and Compound 1080. Declare your support for this predator poisons ban by contacting your representative today.
Not only are these poisons deadly to wildlife and pets, they are dangerous to us! Funded by taxpayers and embraced by the United States Department of Agriculture’s infamous Wildlife Services as a reasonable method to control predators, four audits by the Office of the Inspector General found that the stockpiles of these lethal agents could not be properly accounted for.
These poisons are dangerous and are not needed.
It’s estimated that only .18% of the total U.S. cattle are killed by carnivores and yet agribusiness has rallied a sledgehammer approach of broadcasting poisons across our landscapes instead of using tested non-lethal controls such as pens, sheds, and guard animals.
Join WildEarth Guardians in supporting HR5643, the DeFazio-Campbell bill that bans M-44s and Compound 1080 as a predator management tool.
Both people and their pets have been inadvertently exposed to sodium cyanide while enjoying the outdoors. Watch a first hand account here.
M-44’s have killed endangered species, such as California condors and wolves. Is this really what we want occurring in our open spaces and with our wildlife?
Contact your representative today and tell them that you support HR5643, the ban on deadly wildlife poisons.
For the wild,
Wendy Keefover-Ring
Carnivore Protection Director
WildEarth Guardians
wkeefoverring@wildearthguardians.org
