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[hans brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>]

Hallo Thomas,

thank you for that brandnew and very shocking New Zealand 
apple-farmer-bird-bombing article!
Bombs are used now-a-days to "solve" more and more problems.
The real damage and suffer is never considered!

New Zealand exported 2005 more than 300.000 t of apples.
This article will be published at Europe the next time and it will make 
Europeans thinking more about the
complete nonsense of Apple-importation from New Zealand to Europe!!!

Those apples are also much more poisonous than apples from Europe 
production, but because of international treaties
we can not stop the import. E.g. like the importation of hormone-meat 
from USA.
Europe farmers are not allowed to use any hormons in meat production.
To declare the poison on New Zealand apples (or American hormons inside 
meat) is not allowed (WTO),
because no customer would buy them. Almost the same we do with our 
mad-cow-disease...

At Germany e.g. apple-, cherry and grape-plantations are considered as 
an important and positive part of  our environment.
And we have the same starlings in the same amounts...
But producers are using other effective - non killing - methods...

ciao
Hans



Thomas Olenio schrieb:

> Hi,
>
>  
>
> Here is a fellow with real pest problems.  Claims they cost him 
> $300,000 last year in lost crops.
>
>  
>
> * Massive explosion leaves thousands of birds dead *
>
> ** An orchardist who regularly mounts attacks on roosting starlings 
> has allegedly left thousands of birds dead and dying after 
> commissioning a bird bomb for his latest effort. **
>
>  
>
>  
>
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4168476a7693.html#Scene _1 
> <http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4168476a7693.html#Scene_1>
>
>  
>
> Having been frustrated by pests myself it is hard to decide where I 
> stand on his actions.
>
>  
>
> Later,
>
> Tom
>
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