{"id":291,"date":"2024-09-09T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=291"},"modified":"2024-09-20T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:45:09","slug":"friends-of-animals-wildlife-deaths-expose-nycs-rat-poison-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/09\/09\/friends-of-animals-wildlife-deaths-expose-nycs-rat-poison-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of Animals: Wildlife deaths expose NYC\u2019s rat poison problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofanimals.org\/wildlife-deaths-expose-nycs-rat-poison-problem\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Nicole Rivard and Scott Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFlaco\u2019s Law,\u201d a new bill introduced in April by Council Member Shaun Abreu, would at least eliminate rodenticides in two NYC neighborhoods as part of a rodent birth control pilot program, if it passes. Dr. Loretta Mayer, co-founder of Wisdom GoodWorks, has been working with Abreu and educating him about the non-profit\u2019s fertility control GoodBites, which are plant-based pellets and function as a food supplement for rats and mice, so they are a healthier meal for the city\u2019s wildlife in addition to being an effective population-control measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/friendsofanimals.org\/wildlife-deaths-expose-nycs-rat-poison-problem\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Nicole Rivard and Scott Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlaco\u2019s Law,\u201d a new bill introduced in April by Council Member Shaun Abreu, would at least eliminate rodenticides in two NYC neighborhoods as part of a rodent birth control pilot program, if it passes. Dr. Loretta Mayer, co-founder of Wisdom GoodWorks, has been working with Abreu and educating him about the non-profit\u2019s fertility control GoodBites, which are plant-based pellets and function as a food supplement for rats and mice, so they are a healthier meal for the city\u2019s wildlife in addition to being an effective population-control measure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/09\/09\/friends-of-animals-wildlife-deaths-expose-nycs-rat-poison-problem\/\">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-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}