Secretive Federal Agency’s Days of Killing Pets With Poison Bombs May Finally Be Ending
theintercept.com
Wildlife Services, a federal agency, distributes government cyanide bombs to kill predators at the behest of the livestock industry lobby.

Thanks @ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net for finding this and posting it in the news bulletin, I felt it needed its own post.

The original title of this article is way too passive voice for my taste but the article itself is pretty good.

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    Fun fact, coyotes are important for controlling prairie dog populations; prairie dogs are also a cattle nuisance because they compete for forage. So then the ranchers want to poison all the prairie dogs. Just defaunate the whole countryside.