Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by Woody

Iv'e done my homework very thoroughly and documented it with government over more than a decade. I just wish most people would be as diligent. If they were, I do believe the falsities presently expounded to justify the degree of 1080 poison use would be well known and the result would be a major expansion of trapping and shooting (including thermal scopes) and a matching elimination of 1080 use. People need to use their time to search the truth rather than depend on short comments on casual social entertainment boards when the subject is so lethally serious to our social and natural environment. The interference of those with various personal biases in social discussions destroy the integrity and validity of purported outcomes or solutions unfortunately.

No, there wouldnt be a major expansion of trapping or shooting, because man power is too expensive, and thats the bottom line.

The question and the only thing on the govts mind is: What is going to kill the most pests for X amount of dollars. And that is not and never will be trapping or shooting.

The only question asked here is if 1080 was discontinued, what is a cost effective alternative. And no one here has produced a solution.

Immediately when that question is asked, the anti-1080 crowd seem to take offence and think it is some personal attack on them and attack, abuse and try and put down others for asking the question.

No, it is a completely reasonable question to ask and one that needs to be answered before any change is made. In my opinion, it makes no difference if youve done your homework for 10 years or 10 minutes, if you cant come up with a cost effective method of pest control, 1080 in the eyes of the govt will go nowhere and all your homework is a waste of time.

No one here as said it isnt bad, of course it is bad, no poison is good, it isnt used just for the hell of it, it is used because it is needed to be used.

Its the same as the pesticide DDT, and it wasnt stopped worldwide until there was an alternative, and that is all anyone is asking for - an alternative to 1080 that is cost effective.