Subject: [Tweeters] Scotts Miracle-Gro/Pine Sisken Deaths?
Date: Mar 30 16:08:41 2012
From: Diane Weinstein - diane_weinstein at msn.com


If the suet cakes are contaminated with salmonella, I wonder if there is a connection between this product and the large number of sick and dying Pine Siskens.

Diane Weinstein
Issaquah

From: Amy Shumann
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 12:14 PM
To: Devorah the ornithologist
Cc: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Tweeters] Scotts Miracle-Gro -- the bird-killing company?

Great article! People should also know that these products are still in the store. My husband bought a cake of Morning Song suet at Safeway about a week ago - he read the article but didn't recognize the Morning Song brand as one of Scott's. The sku number matched (packaged in 2009) what has been recalled. He checked the Scott's website and it just says something about salmonella - nothing about pesticides in the product. I'm sure glad we didn't put it out. Amy


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Devorah the ornithologist <birdologist at gmail.com> wrote:

hi everyone,

i have spent the last 4 days digging, digging, digging into this story
about the Scotts Miracle-Gro company's poisoned birdseed. thanks to
the efforts of a friend of mine, i also managed to get the court
documents for this case -- not an easy task unless you know someone.
anyway, after all that work, writing and rewriting, and then the
lawyering, my story has finally been published.

the short story: the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company pleads guilty to
knowingly selling poisoned birdseed and lawn and garden care products
containing undocumented pesticides to an unsuspecting public.

the long story can be read here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2

i think this story is important to anyone who feeds wild birds or
keeps birds, who gardens or grows their own food, or who has kids or
pets running around on their lawns.

cheers,


--
GrrlScientist
Devorah Bennu, PhD
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