1080 is essential right?

New Zealand is overrun with pests. Possums, rats stoats, ferrets, weasels, rabbits - doubtless others.

1080 poison is non species specific.It does not just kill pests. It kills non targeted species as well like native birds, deer, goats and others. Delivered in pellets by air it does not kill some pests like stoats. Stoats do not eat pellets. Stoats are a major threat to our native bird species.

Currently we rely on "secondary poisoning" to kill stoats (or trapping). In other words rat eats 1080 pellet - stoat eats rat and dies. Not very efficient. Rats are very savvy. They soon get bait shy and avoid pellets. Besides 1080 is just a short term control.

Pest control is vital to the conservation of our forests and native birds. Our country urgently needs to eradicate these pests. 1080 will never do that. We need a new beginning.

The leading scientist worldwide on 1080 is
Dr C Eason of Landcare research who has been working away there for decades. Despite that we are no further ahead. NZ has huge surpluses of money. Our Prime Minister is always telling us we have "Kiwi ingenuity" NZ urgently needs new thinking and new approaches to this huge problem. That does mean spending money on it though!

Citizens hate this stuff raining from their skies. That fear to us at least is sincere and most likely justified. They do have rights and they are not being taken seriously at this time. They will win the argument though. Dropping a deadly toxic poison from the air over lakes and rivers and human water supplies is not acceptable in the modern world. It will end soon.

1080 does not target specifically and anyone who has witnessed any creature dying of 1080 taking many hours as it does could not see this as anything other than the cruelest act of torture.

 

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1080 Farmers protest sign

1080 Protest Sign

What is 1080?

1080 Poison sometimes called Compound 1080 is a synthetic copy of a naturally occurring chemical found in some plants. That is sodium fluoroacetate. The synthetic copy used in New Zealand in poison operations is Sodium Monofluoroacetate. Technically, the warning signs used by authorities are incorrect. Those signs warn of the natural occurring chemical not the synthetic one. 1080 is one the most toxic substances known to man.

Where does 1080 come from?

All of the worlds known production comes from one small plant in Oxford, Alabama called the Tull Chemical Co. operated by one Charles Wigley. The "factory" which is more akin to a shed is located in a suburban street and has been the subject of many investigations over the years by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Local residents have complained.

Currently a US congressman is trying to get the factory closed. Manufacturing.net reports that senator Pete DeFazio (D-Oregon) ''He's circulating a bill now and trying to get co-sponsors,'' Penny Dodge, DeFazio's chief of staff, said Thursday. The FBI has listed Compound 1080 as a potential tool for terrorists, and the Air Force says it is a likely biological agent, according to a letter DeFazio sent to colleagues seeking support of a ban.

1080 was banned in the USA in 1972.

Authorities often suggest you drink it in your tea.

This is intended to reassure you. Don't be. The same authorities often refer to animals who eat plant materials containing natural 1080 especially in Western Australia. They forget to mention the 50million odd years of evolution that permits these animal to browse foliage containing the chemical. There are recorded many cases of animals that did not evolve in the same area devouring that same foliage and dying!

Little is known about the effects of very small doses of 1080 on the human body. Small doses could be more damaging to the human body than larger doses. (endocrine disruption)

1080 found in Iraq

If you read the US "weapons of mass destruction" report you will find information about 1080 that was found there. That confirms that 1080 is considered as a terrorist weapon.

1080 found in Iraq

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