Reduce Rodenticides in Chicago

Paula Chmiel
Target: 

Mayor, City Council Members, Head of Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation’s Bureau of Rodent Control

Signatures:

 1,814

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Petition

We petition the Mayor, City Council and Department of Streets and Sanitation to try some of the new methods out there and reduce spending on ineffective rodenticides.
REDUCE THE RODENTICIDE BUDGET BY 20% THIS YEAR AND USE THAT MONEY FOR PILOT STUDIES OF CONTRACEPTIVES, CARBON MONOXIDE, AND/OR OTHER METHODS OF PREVENTION AND DETERRENCE.

We petition the Mayor, City Council and Department of Streets and Sanitation to try some of the new methods out there and reduce spending on ineffective rodenticides.
REDUCE THE RODENTICIDE BUDGET BY 20% THIS YEAR AND USE THAT MONEY FOR PILOT STUDIES OF CONTRACEPTIVES, CARBON MONOXIDE, AND/OR OTHER METHODS OF PREVENTION AND DETERRENCE.

Petition background

The Chicago budget season is upon us. There is a boatload of money budgeted for rodenticide. These have been the key to Chicago’s rat-fighting efforts - and they don’t work. Chicago was just named the rattiest city in the country -again!!

Rodenticide kills birds. The two owls pictured plus a third - Lincoln Park’s owl family that was seen and loved by so many this year - all were killed by rodenticide this summer. So was Flaco, NYC’s beloved owl. Their prey is full of toxic rodenticide.

Read about a sensible position and the research it is based on here.

 

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We signed: Reduce Rodenticides in Chicago

Nora
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 18:49
#1734
Susan
EVANSTON, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 16:57
#1733
Stacy
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 16:51
#1732
Brooke
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 15:53
#1731
Martha
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 11:33
#1730
Kailin
Oak Park, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 11:29
#1729
Merissa
Cincinnati, OH
Tue, 2024-11-12 11:20
#1728
Rachel
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 11:18
#1727
Barbara
Chicago, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 10:45
#1726
Brian
Evanston, IL
Tue, 2024-11-12 08:01
#1725

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