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  • From: hans brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] You Think You Got Pest Problems?
  • Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:36:28 +0200

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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