Response to AHB/DOC combined press release

Response to AHB/DOC combined press release

Farmers Against Ten Eighty commends concerned New Zealanders for holding their anti aerial poison day. This is only an indication of anti aerial poison feeling out there & reflects a growing, ground-swell of people refusing to have any aerial poison used.

Department of Conservation has not produced one long-term population study to back up any of Al Morisson’s claims in the latest combined AHB/DOC press statements. Lobbyists know 1080 for the very cruel, entirely indiscriminate killer that it is & broadifacoum is a definite food-chain compromiser in the same manner as DDT.

Far from offering protection to our meat & dairy industries, one contaminated shipment of either to our overseas markets, would stop our exports over night and it is now not IF but WHEN – remember we are all down-stream or in the catchment of DOC or AHB poisons!

Our main source of new bovine tuberculosis is from stock movements & movement controls are an area which has show our biggest gains in recent years – it is time to adjust movement controls & tighten up the vulnerable areas – provide farmers with comprehensive, accurate information to deal with persistent & recurring infections on their farms – know that USA & Canada did this without slaughtering its wildlife & they achieved TB free status which they have held for years.

As to claims of biodegradable 1080 – under what circumstances & do these circumstances exist in NZ bush?

No they do not; temperatures of 20-30 degrees are required to degrade 1080 from water. This can take months to achieve – in the meantime there are all those dead carcasses available to our insects & birds that carry on killing and killing.

One of the compounds remaining after 1080 does breakdown is fluoro-hydrocarbon which is a green house gas – hardly the harmless “salt & vinegar”. It is time to stop defending the indefensible – no more aerial poison, re-think its ground use – ban 1080 altogether.

ENDS

© Scoop Media