USDA Admits role in large bird kill

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theloo...arge-bird-kill

USDA admits role in large bird kill

By Brett Michael s
By Brett Michael s brett Michael s – Fri Jan 21, 12:00 pm ET
When birds began mysteriously falling from the sky a couple of weeks ago, some conspiratorial minds were convinced that the government was involved. One line of speculation held that the Pentagon was conducting a secret weapons experiment that killed the birds. Another theorized that the feds were covering up the air-befouling practices of a major player in agribusiness or the energy industry.
Now we know that the governmentdid have a hand in at least one of the kills, though this revelation doesn't seem to involve sinister intrigue.
Yes, the Agriculture Department said Thursday, it did have a hand in the recent mass killing of starlings in South Dakota. According to the USDA, the birds were poisoned in Nebraska to help farmers who had complained about starling flocks defecating into livestock feed troughs. The birds dropped dead en masse after migrating north.
According to the Christian Science Monitor:

"The USDA's Wildlife Services Program, which contracts with farmers for bird control, said it used an avicide poison called DRC-1339 to cull a roost of 5,000 birds that were defecating on a farmer's cattle feed across the state line in Nebraska. But officials said the agency had nothing to do with large and dense recent bird kills in Arkansas and Louisiana.

"Nevertheless, the USDA's role in the South Dakota bird deaths puts a focus on a little-known government bird-control program that began in the 1960s under the name of Bye Bye Blackbird, which eventually became part of the USDA and was housed in the late '60s at a NASA facility. In 2009, USDA agents euthanized more than 4 million red-winged blackbirds, starlings, cowbirds, and grackles, primarily using pesticides that the government says are not harmful to pets or humans."

[LnGrrrR]

Wow... pretty interesting stuff. I didn't know the government just wiped out birds like that.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Hmmm. Birds now. What next?

[boutons_deux]

I thought rurals hated government?

[MiamiHeat]

I thought rurals hated government?

"Don't they hate our people? Why would they deal with me?"

"The answer to that is obvious. Money."

[DMC]

Ive seen thousands of birds dead after a violent storm. The birds had taken shelter en masse in a group of trees, and the trees were stripped down to the bark, broken limbs and everything. There were birds everywhere.

[mouse]

I wonder how many birds died on 9/11

[Wild Cobra]

Hmmm. Birds now. What next?

Ever see GATTACA?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Ever see GATTACA?

the Uma Thurman movie? No? I guess it's good?

[mouse]

[sickdsm]

I thought rurals hated government?

I'm sure they would have just done it themselves instead of involving the govt had they not got in trouble.


Or are you incapable of action without direction?

[greyforest]

what about all the other that mysteriously died
like the cattle and fish

[George Gervin's Afro]

what about all the other that mysteriously died
like the cattle and fish

I blame Obamacare

[TeyshaBlue]

I blame Obamacare

Steak Panels!

[coyotes_geek]

Steak Panels!