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RATS, Raptors, and Reckitt Benckiser

10,000 Birds

Mice/rats in your house or business? ” Most people don’t understand what they’re doing when they use rat poison. In 2004 – more than 20 years later – the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) had to sue EPA in order to get them to do anything about it. Call the pest control company. Alert: they’re lying.

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Deconstructing Slate's "Pepper" Series

Animal Person

Engber mentions that in 1972, the USDA put into place "a special exemption for rats, mice, and birds, allowing scientists to treat them however they saw fit—in cages of any size, in experiments with any degree of pain and suffering. Scientists mapped out the entire mouse genome in 2002 and the rat genome in 2004.)