Zonastat and GonaCon can’t be pesticides because they don’t kill their targets.
Wrong!
A pesticide is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest, according to the EPA.
The intended effect of the two leading pesticides for wild horses is contraception, not death, according to the Final EA for management actions in the McCullough Peaks HMA. Go to the bottom of page nine in the pdf.
Adverse reactions may kill a few animals but that is not the intent.
By snuffing out new life, driving breeding populations to zero and shutting down natural selection, the chronic effect is extermination.
They won’t admit it but you have to give them credit for playing the long game.
Forget about Section 4.4.6.3 in the WHB Handbook.
Everyone in the Love Triangle is culpable.
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