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EPA Bans Many Household Rat and Mouse Poisons
Cybercast News Service ^ | 6/7/11 | Susan Jones

Posted on 06/07/2011 10:18:53 AM PDT by Nachum

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Tuesday that it plans to ban the sale of “the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products” to residential customers. The goal is to better protect children, pets and wildlife. “These changes are essential to reduce the thousands of accidental exposures of children that occur every year from rat and mouse control products and also to protect household pets,” said Steve Owens, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. The EPA also will require that all rat and mouse poisons

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To: Nachum

Ban EPA right back!!


81 posted on 06/07/2011 10:50:31 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Please sir...permission to protest?)
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To: Nachum
Those poisons will be available for use in residential settings, but only by professional pest control applicators.

By all means, let's F U.S. citizens one more time.

I am continually amazed at the measures government thinks it needs to take on behalf of children.

If folks can't take care of their own children, they shouldn't have them. It's called, thinning the herd.

When I had young children in the home, I child-proofed it as much as possible, and kept an eye on my kids at all times when they were under my care.

All the problems we have today, and this is what our leaders spend their time on. It's further proof that we could lop off major portions of our public employees and still survive. Perhaps thrive would be a better term...

82 posted on 06/07/2011 10:50:47 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Come up with a better political belief system, and I'll adopt it as my own.)
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To: Wonder Warthog
Do what the ancient Egyptians did.....GET A CAT!

What is a family to do if someone in the household is seriously allergic to cats?

83 posted on 06/07/2011 10:50:52 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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To: andy58-in-nh
Nimh has brought in live rabbits and chipmunks. We don't let him out anymore. I think the live mice on the bed is revenge. ;-)

We get mice during rain in the summer but rats only in winter.

84 posted on 06/07/2011 10:52:20 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: ransacked
Call me old-fashioned, but we still utilize the old Victor brand guillotine-style break the neck trap.

Yup, and a few outside cats!!!

85 posted on 06/07/2011 10:52:24 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: DCBryan1

Hokay... so the banned stuff can be bought in big boxes and bags. An answer only a bureaucracy could love. Now maybe if 100 watt bulbs could be had in quantities of a gross?


86 posted on 06/07/2011 10:52:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: CommerceComet
Allegra
87 posted on 06/07/2011 10:53:38 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: Nachum
EPA Bans Many Household Rat and Mouse Poisons

Alternate headline, for an alternate (sane) universe:

EPA Bans Humans to Protect Environment

88 posted on 06/07/2011 10:55:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Some of us still 'hold these truths to be self-evident'..Enough to save the country? Time will tell.)
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To: Moose4
Apparently cats have to learn from their mothers how to kill prey.

Cats are good, but an owner of a Jack Russell terrier told me that their dog is a better mouser than their cats.

89 posted on 06/07/2011 11:00:34 AM PDT by hellbender
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To: Blennos
Eventually they will get around to banning insecticides. Every ban is a loss of a little bit more of our liberty.

They've already banned two excellent ones, Dursban and Diazinon.

90 posted on 06/07/2011 11:02:49 AM PDT by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; EternalVigilance

Not much of a debate. We have three distinct branches of government so as to limit the power of any one branch. Our Constitution is explicit:

Executive - executes laws
Legislative - makes laws (they were also intended to be the most powerful branch yet slow and lumbering so as to protect liberty)
Judical - decides if laws are Constitutional or not

The executive has no authority to make laws.
The legislative cannot delegate its authority to the Executive.


91 posted on 06/07/2011 11:03:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Spirochete

And DDT.


92 posted on 06/07/2011 11:05:23 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Nachum

We were using poison to kill gophers on our acreage with limited success until a pair of nesting red tailed hawks took up residence in one of our largest oak trees. The gopher population has diminished for some reason.


93 posted on 06/07/2011 11:06:29 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: Moose4

Funny! I have 2 cats too. The skinny tabby female is great at catching (and killing) gophers; waits all day if necessary staring at the holes in my lawn and then gets them. One morning she killed two.

The fat male cat is really stupid; he thinks he can catch gophers by sticking his arm down the holes. I just know the gophers are laughing at him.


94 posted on 06/07/2011 11:07:26 AM PDT by olivia3boys
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To: Nachum; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Liz

Kids are going to die when the rats chew on the wiring and buildings burn down. And when they eat up the heating ductwork, the kids will freeze. Let alone the diseases.

The EPA administrators may not realize how hard it is to get rid of rats once they get started, but they make enough to hire professional exterminators, so they don’t have to worry.


95 posted on 06/07/2011 11:08:17 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: Nervous Tick; DJ MacWoW
We use electronic “zappers”.
I’d like to know more. What model do you favor? tks

The problem I had was the darn mice went up and over any traps I laid. The little monsters are smart. The dog ignored them, some help she was.

So I checked around the internet and found some natural repellants, so that I didn't poison the stupid dog.

Baking soda and pure peppermint oil. The baking soda apparently does ugly things to the inside of a rodent and they go off and die, and rodents don't like the smell of peppermint oil.

Within 3 days, I never saw a mouse in the house again.

We won't discuss the bird that got in last week though. :-)

96 posted on 06/07/2011 11:09:22 AM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: hellbender

That makes sense, and neither of ours did. Our fat cat is the son of a pampered pedigreed Maine Coon show cat and we got him at four months old; he’s never had to deal with mice until this year (he’s 8). Our skinny cat is also a Maine Coon but he was rescued from a breeder who got overwhelmed and ended up with 30+ cats; he was low cat on the totem pole and had very little socialization. We got him at 11 months and he didn’t even have a name, hadn’t been groomed or fixed, and had lost his tail when a door got slammed on it. They’re both great cats, very sweet and loving in that offbeat Maine Coon way, but they were never trained as mousers; they go by sheer kitty instinct about catching a mouse, but once they do, they tend to slowly beat it to death playing with it instead of killing it quickly.

}:-)4


97 posted on 06/07/2011 11:09:34 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: Nachum

Never had to deal with mice, but would seriously consider a cat if necessary. Maybe a Maine Coon or something of the big American breeds. Rats - well, our late lab took care of that problem.:) Much cheaper than vector control.


98 posted on 06/07/2011 11:10:16 AM PDT by Desdemona ( If trusting the men in the clergy was a requirement for Faith, there would be no one in the pews.)
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To: Glenn

Ben too!


99 posted on 06/07/2011 11:11:44 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: Nachum

EPA=Extreme Protection Agency. Anyone who lives in rented old buildings in the inner city known how necessary such usually are. Many times I have prayed and pulverized many packets of mouse poison and mixed it with a little peanut butter when the invaders would not eat the pellets, and they all died, thank God.

Years ago bedbugs were killed using sulfur candles, but these and many other old remedies also are illegal. Perhaps banning boric acid will be next.


100 posted on 06/07/2011 11:12:27 AM PDT by daniel1212 ( "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out," Acts 3:19)
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