Thread: SPCA call out 1080 for what it is - good on you !!

I think it is a very good thing that the SPCA has spoken publicly against 1080. There has been a very obvious ploy by DOC (read Forest and Bird) recently to discredit all and any person who is anti the use of 1080 as lawless rabble who shouldn’t be given the time of day. They can’t use this ploy with the SPCA, so have had to resort to calling them naive. More name calling and discrediting dissenters.

If we had any real journalists in this country they would be asking why, when we have been dropping this poison for around 60 years, and claiming how effective it is, we have had little real success with it, and are having to drop it in ever increasing quantities on more and more areas every year. But of course, real journalists are few and far between.

I read somewhere recently that a pro 1080 scientist claimed the mean time till death of some sort of rodent (can’t remember which) was of the order of 11 hours. This means that half of the deaths took longer than 11 hours. Can anyone name any other organisation in New Zealand where it is acceptable to take more than 11 hours to kill an animal?

Problem is that only public opinion will sway them, and they are doing this ‘out of sight, out of mind’ of the general public.