{"id":184,"date":"2024-04-11T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=184"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:19:50","slug":"new-york-post-nyc-to-look-at-birth-control-for-rats-to-combat-rodent-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/11\/new-york-post-nyc-to-look-at-birth-control-for-rats-to-combat-rodent-population\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: NYC to look at birth control for rats to combat rodent population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/11\/us-news\/nyc-looks-at-birth-control-for-rats\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Haley Brown and Aneeta Bhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love is in the air for squeakhearts \u2014 and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation \u2014 in the latest attempt to quell the plague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abreu \u2014 who helms the Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management \u2014 said \u201cContraPest pellets\u201d would work together with the city\u2019s broader push to fight rats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dWe believe that we need to take a shock-and-awe approach to the rat problem by throwing everything we have at it,\u2019\u2019 the Democrat said in council chambers Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contraceptives would be deployed in rat mitigation zones that cover at least 10 city blocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/11\/us-news\/nyc-looks-at-birth-control-for-rats\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Haley Brown and Aneeta Bhole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Love is in the air for squeakhearts \u2014 and city lawmakers want to stop them from becoming new parents.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Shaun Abreu (D-Manhattan) has proposed a rat birth control program jointly run by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Department of Sanitation \u2014 in the latest attempt to quell the plague.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/11\/new-york-post-nyc-to-look-at-birth-control-for-rats-to-combat-rodent-population\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}