Thread: Has 1080 by kill struck again

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"1080 was first patented as an insecticide. It even can kill aphids on a plant that takes it up through the soil and kills fleas on an animal sublethally poisoned. It is pure fantasy to imagine that the rock wren did not die from 1080 poisoning. Notman (1989) found insectivores are killed when they feed on insects, and on baits that are laid for possums and rodents. Cockroaches become slow and do not exhibit usual evasion of prey animals. Weta become hyperactive and both can take days even weeks before it kills them - if a bird or other animal doesn't eat it first. World Health Organisation noted 1080 as highly toxic to bees. It is not just a mammalian poison - it affects anything that uses oxygen - including fish. Both vertebrates and invertebrates, but at different rates because it is a metabolic poison. Clinical dose is hard to pin down. No antidote has ever been discovered. It is only broken down by microbial action usually of the soil but it kills the organisms that break it down. 1080 has not been studied properly here and the insect study that DoC arranged to replace the Mike Meads study that had 6 peer reviews and showed a problem for invertebrates (including insects) was not well done and not peer reviewed, but said what they wanted it say. That is a dangerous game and other countries do recognise NZ's misconceptions about 1080 including the water misconception. We are only hurting ourselves by carrying on with this charade for the benefit of a few business men hiding behind the state's skirts and falsifying facts. "