USDA Poisons Millions of Birds to Death

Every once in a while I find something which isn’t related to Sea Shepherd but that I’m confident is important to share with Sea Shepherd fans because it’s related to the well being of animals and consequently is relevant indirectly. This is one of those occasions.

Over the past few years there have been an increasing number of reports of mass bird deaths. And of course the media is quick to write it off as freak occurrences of mother nature and even apocalyptic foreshadowing. I—like many others I’m sure—was confident this had nothing to do with odd turns in the road and everything to do with sadistic humans wanting to change something. And as it turns out, this was the case.

The United States Department of Agriculture has publicly admitted to poisoning millions of birds. And they have been doing so for quite some time. The reason? Because birds were shitting in open containers of feed meal. So rather than suggesting that farmers cover their feed meal containers they agreed to the genocide of many species of birds.

Humans never cease to amaze me at just how sadistic they can be.