Posts by Michael Hood
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Wow that blog is straight out of Protecting Parasites, the non-scientific book! Yes it's from March last year. And unhappily for all those who wrote at length about how awful those opposed to this 1080 poison are and how violent, partially illiterate and downright nasty they must be to to threaten babies... it was one of those involved in the NZ poison pest control industry as most of population who are opposed to 1080 thought it must logically be given the lack of compassion it must have taken. And a well known scientist who opposes the poison gave the police their lead.
Here is a post from one of the facebook communities from around this time:
The man who threatened the nation's babies with a deadly poison has now had name supression lifted. His excuse? Only that his pest control poison Feratox wasn't selling well enough and he'd maxed out on his credit card. He claims he didn't have enough to live on.... so why didn't he just sell off some of his large portfolio of real estate around the country instead of committing an act of what some called blackmail but the Prime Minister called eco-terrorism; hinting at misguided anti-1080 activism as the cause. No, John, it was just business as usual for the poisoners who all want the biggest share of the poisoning wildlife 'pie' - but the government's got that all sewn up with 1080, haven't they. What a sick industry in a country marketed as 'Pure'! It's enough to make anyone angry at the government. We're talkng here about our safety against a substance that is labelled as a chemical of mass destruction! And a member of NZ's pest control industry is angling for greater market share using threats against babies? What kind of industry are we nurturing? Aren't we better than this? Killing for conservation? Is that what we are sanctioning as a country? It's time to change more than our flag.