{"id":9501,"date":"2011-06-15T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2011-06-15T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T13:33:27","slug":"epa-moves-to-protect-rodents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/15\/epa-moves-to-protect-rodents\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Moves To Protect Rodents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Won&#8217;t someone think of the cute little vermin?  Sure, the <a href=\"http:\/\/yosemite.epa.gov\/opa\/admpress.nsf\/1e5ab1124055f3b28525781f0042ed40\/5689a230c1490219852578a80053a4b7!OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Protection Agency will<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo better protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is moving to ban the sale to residential consumers of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet products. The agency is also requiring that all newly registered rat and mouse poisons marketed to residential consumers be enclosed in bait stations that render the pesticide inaccessible to children and pets. Wildlife that consume bait or poisoned rodents will also be protected by EPA\u2019s actions.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happens when you commission an agency acting on orders to protect an amorphous concept like <em>environment<\/em> with lessening consideration for protecting <em>people<\/em>, <em>citizens<\/em>, <em>individual liberty<\/em>, <em>civilization<\/em>, or a host of other concepts that make <em>environmental protection<\/em> much less <em>agency<\/em> possible at all.<\/p>\n<p>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/maybe-we-can-do-for-bubonic-plague-what.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tam K.<\/a>, who envisions:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maybe we can do for bubonic plague what we did for malaria!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Won&#8217;t someone think of the cute little vermin? Sure, the Environmental Protection Agency will: To better protect children, pets and wildlife, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is moving to ban the sale to residential consumers of the most toxic rat and mouse poisons, as well as most loose bait and pellet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-overreach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9503,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions\/9503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}