Thread: Help Stop 1080, please sign

Originally Posted by Mr Browning

Youre forgetting the factor of time.
Yes, $57 per ha might sound good, but how many ha can a man cover effectively in a day and how many ha can a hopper or fixed wing aircraft cover in a day. All of a sudden man power doesnt look so efficient does it.

So the original problem remains. Come up with a cost efficient (and time efficient) alternative to 1080 for pest control and Im sure the country will be right behind you.

Signing a petition to stop 1080 without any alternative solution is never going to get any response from the govt.

Or would you prefer we stop using 1080 and maybe introduce wolves and foxes or some other animals to control the pests until they become pests themselves. Probably not a good idea either, but good for shooters, sadly be then we wont be allowed firearms to hunt them.

More manpower needed, so more wage earners, so less unemployed getting up to no good in the idle time the devil fills. I don't see the problem in profits not being highly concentrated with fewer operators who have helicopters, poison manufacturing plants, etc.

NZ unfortunately has a large unemployed workforce. Some not able to upskill to highly technical jobs but then again they are also not strong enough to spend all their working lives wrecking their bodies in an abattoir.

Small is Beautiful is worth revisiting. It should be right up the Greens' alley, but they are against firearms at a very visceral level hard so the colour of their glasses does not allow them to see clearly.