HUMAN PESTILENCE: Mice should be sent to scratch the faces of animal activists’ children, says Australia’s PM
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OLIVIA BURKE: Australia’s acting Prime Minister has said the nation’s mouse plague should be “rehomed” in the inner-city apartments of animal rights activists to “nibble their feet” and “scratch their children at night”. National Party leader Michael McCormack made the bizarre suggestion in Parliament after being questioned about his plan to help farmers.
He also hit out at animal rights organisation PETA in his latest attack on “idiots” who believe that frustrated farmers shouldn’t kill mice. “There is nothing worse than the stench of mice, nothing worse than having mice eat your grain, mice running around your house, farm and factory,” he said. “And we have PETA coming out, and I didn’t hear the member for Melbourne disendorsing them – saying the poor little curious creatures, the mice, should be rehomed.
“I agree they should be rehomed, into their inner-city apartments so they can nibble away at their food and their feet at night and scratch their children at night,” McCormack told the House of Representatives. “This is a disgrace by PETA. We always stand ready to help our farmers.” His comments come as Aussies continue to battle the biblical rodent plague that has taken over and “ravaged” communities…
But PETA spokeswoman Aleesha Naxakis has previously urged Victorians not to kill the mice. “Our common advice to rodent overpopulation is, of course, to avoid poison which subjects these animals to unbearably painful deaths but also pose the risk of spreading bacteria, and there are alternatives which exist,” she said. “It is so unfair that these mice are going to suffer these horrible deaths”… Labour frontbencher Tanya Plibersek said his remarks were “very weird” and added that his “hostility to people who live in the city actually makes no sense”…
After his outburst, he later confirmed that the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority was considering further solutions to the rodent problem. “They are considering a request for certain pesticides and herbicides. To the bait. “But the trouble with that bait is that it also does have secondary influences on native birds and other animals, pets around the house and indeed livestock,” McCormack said. SOURCE…
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