Blackbird rain, you won't believe it.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/01/government-investigates-blackbird-deaths-while-poisoning-them-itself/#more-27488

In 2009 the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), part of USDA, says it poisoned 489,444 red-winged blackbirds in Texas and 461,669 in Louisiana. It also shot 4,217 blackbirds in California, 2,246 in North Dakota and 1,063 in Oregon according to its posted records.

We won’t even talk about the starlings, crows, ravens, doves, geese, owls (yes, owls), hawks, pigeons, ducks, larks, woodpeckers and coots our tax dollars annihilated to benefit ranchers, farmers and other private interests. Or the squirrels, rabbits, badgers, bobcats, beavers, woodchucks, coyotes, opossums, raccoons and mountain lions.

The he-men at the Wildlife Service also shot 29 great blue herons, 820 cattle egrets and 115 white-faced ibises in 2009, despite the known dangers of approaching shore birds.

It’s hard to know which is worse: government agencies like APHIS, Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry helping private rice farmers and landowners with our tax dollars. Or the scorched earth baiting of their rice fields with poison “until blackbird populations are depleted,” as LSU’s Rice Research Station News puts it.

[xchrom]

1. recommend

[malaise]

2. Why won't we believe it

Vietnam, Panama, Grenada, Iraq...those birds were human.

[fasttense]

3. If you read some of the proposed new regulations for farmers,

you will see that letting birds fly over your fields is a health hazard and it must be stopped.

Once they get rid of pesky things like wild birds, the insect and rodent populations increase to fill the niche. That means more and more pesticides and poison on and around your food.

Yeah factory farms, yeah spotlessly clean vegetables laced with poisons.

[OneGrassRoot]

4. Thank you for this. K&R n/t

[lostnfound]

6. great bumper sticker nt

[Joanne98]

5. Good catch!