The way Forest and Bird writes it, and sells this information as being sourced from DOC, almost makes it sound like they are confidently insinuating it is perfectly fine for a person to eat a 1080 bait - and suffer nothing. Especially by making it sound like humans have been consuming it for centuries. Which contradicts what DOC warns, but if these are the people who are the pro-1080 group then all it takes is one gullible New Zealander to follow and attempt to eat it to prove a point. Or enter a 1080 zone with their young children, thinking it would be completely harmless for them should they pick it up.
So I've never looked into Forest and Bird before, but now I'm actually thoroughly disturbed by them.
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