I Care About The Environment
from TARA LOHAN (THE REVELATOR)
Anticoagulant rodenticides are marketed to lethally "solve" pest issues with poisoned bait. But researchers have been collecting evidence for years showing that it's not just rats that end up dead. Because the poisons are so toxic, they travel up the food chain, and in some cases, can remain in an animal's body for years, sometimes leapfrogging in utero from one generation to the next.
Anticoagulant rodenticides are marketed to lethally "solve" pest issues with poisoned bait. But researchers have been collecting evidence for years showing that it's not just rats that end up dead. Because the poisons are so toxic, they travel up the food chain, and in some cases, can remain in an animal's body for years, sometimes leapfrogging in utero from one generation to the next.
