{"id":1987929,"date":"2023-08-01T15:54:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/m-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-but-could-soon-end-these-deadly-devices-are-still-hidden-across-the-us\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:58:56","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T19:58:56","slug":"m-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-but-could-soon-end-these-deadly-devices-are-still-hidden-across-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/m-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-but-could-soon-end-these-deadly-devices-are-still-hidden-across-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"M-44 Cyanide Bomb Program Continues, Potential End in Sight &#8211; Hidden Deadly Devices in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fm-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-but-could-soon-end-these-deadly-devices-are-still-hidden-across-the-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987929&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Legislation Introduced to Ban Lethal Practice Responsible for Poisonings<\/h2>\n<p>More\u200b than \u200bsix years \u2063after a little-known\u2063 government initiative resulted in the \u200bpoisoning of a 14-year-old \u2063boy and the death \u2063of the boy\u2019s 3-year-old dog, congressional\u2062 Democrats have reintroduced\u200d legislation that would ban\u2064 the lethal practice responsible for the poisonings.<\/p>\n<p>In a story published on Thursday, Ryan \u2063Devereaux of <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2023\/07\/27\/cyanide-bombs-poison-wildlife-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Intercept<\/a> chronicled \u2063one Idaho family\u2019s quest for belated justice.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bstory \u200bbegan on March 16, 2017, when\u2063 14-year-old Canyon Mansfield and his 3-year-old \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vitamin-b12-deficiency-is-a-common-health-problem-that-can-have-serious-consequences-but-doctors-often-overlook-it\/\" title=\"Vitamin B12 Deficiency Is a Common Health Problem That Can Have Serious Consequences \u2013 but Doctors Often Overlook It\">yellow lab<\/a>, Kasey,\u2062 accidentally stumbled upon an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cyanide-bombs-scattered-across-us-dont-touch-just-call-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M-44 cyanide bomb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Canyon\u200b and Kasey had\u2064 not ventured onto a World \u200dWar One\u200b battlefield. \u2063They had hiked up a familiar hill only 300\u2063 yards from the family\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Canyon noticed\u2063 a \u201csprinkler-like\u2062 object protruding from\u200c the ground\u201d and then \u201cran a finger along the device.\u201d At the boy\u2019s light touch, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/m-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-but-could-soon-end-these-deadly-devices-are-still-hidden-across-the-us\/\" title=\"M-44 Cyanide Bomb Program Continues, Potential End in Sight - Hidden Deadly Devices in US\">object \u200dspewed deadly sodium\u200d cyanide<\/a>. Kasey died \u200bwithin minutes, and Canyon experienced dreadful symptoms \u200cthat plagued him\u200c for years.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">USDA must rethink cyanide bombs that injured boy, killed pets, lawmaker\u2063 says \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nX713SqiC5\">https:\/\/t.co\/nX713SqiC5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CristinaCorbin?\">@CristinaCorbin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WE2sk6KmNd\">pic.twitter.com\/WE2sk6KmNd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews)\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/844202588094513154?\">March 21, \u20622017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Family Doctor Seeks Justice<\/h3>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u2064 Mark Mansfield, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-as-close-to-back-to-normal-by-next-mothers-day-if-overwhelming-proportion-of-people-get-vaccinated\/\" title=\"Fauci: \u2018As Close To Back To Normal\u2019 By Next Mother\u2019s Day If \u2018Overwhelming Proportion\u2019 Of People Get Vaccinated\">family doctor<\/a> and Canyon\u2019s father, sought answers and\u200c eventually discovered the culprit. He \u2062learned that the U.S. government had planted the bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/usda-decides-bill-gates-approved-fake-meat-cancer-tumors-totally-safe-eat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department \u2062of Agriculture\u2019s<\/a> \u200dWildlife Services, \u201can under-the-radar \u2063federal agency\u201d empowered \u2063to \u201cprotect the livestock \u200cindustry\u2019s bottom line,\u201d regularly deploys M-44 cyanide \u2063bombs to\u200c kill off predators.<\/p>\n<p>Mansfield sued Wildlife Services and spearheaded a campaign to eradicate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/r-emmett-tyrrell-why-is-putins-army-inept\/\" title=\"R. Emmett Tyrrell: Why Is Putin's Army Inept?\">deadly devices<\/a>. H.R. 4951, \u201cCanyon\u2019s Law,\u201d introduced in 2019, \u2062would \u200cban \u2062the\u2062 use\u200d of M-44 cyanide bombs on\u200d public land.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Mansfield and his allies, including wildlife advocates,\u2064 discovered the power of Washington, D.C.\u2019s agriculture lobby. Many\u200b private ranchers see value in the M-44, which \u2062eliminates wild predators and thus \u2062protects their property\u2064 from destruction.<\/p>\n<p>In Congress, \u201cCanyon\u2019s \u200cLaw\u201d went\u2063 nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-seizes-nearly-2-million-acres-blatant-federal-land-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department \u200bof the Interior<\/a>, however,\u2062 has come to the Mansfields\u2019 aid. During\u2063 a legislative hearing \u2063on July 21, 2022,\u2064 the DOI\u200c submitted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blm.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/2022-07\/DOI%20Statement%20for%20the%20Record%20on%20H.R.%204951%2C%20Canyon%E2%80%99s%20Law_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> declaring its support for an M-44 ban.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dJune, Democratic Reps. Jared Huffman of California and Steve Cohen of\u200c Tennessee reintroduced \u201cCanyon\u2019s Law.\u201d A coalition of wildlife advocacy groups followed with a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/biologicaldiversity.org\/campaigns\/wildlife_services\/pdfs\/M-44-BLM-Petition-6-29-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">petition<\/a> urging \u2063the DOI \u200bto ban M-44s.<\/p>\n<p>The quest\u2062 to rid the U.S. of deadly M-44 cyanide bombs might finally \u2063have momentum.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u200b the story of Canyon Mansfield, his dog Casey, and the stalled \u201cCanyon\u2019s Law\u201d highlights the insidious nature of relationships \u200bbetween government \u2063and private wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Too\u2064 often, agencies such \u200das Wildlife Services \u2063function as an enforcement arm of \u2063big business.<\/p>\n<p>Congress\u2019 failure to enact \u201cCanyon\u2019s \u2062Law\u201d \u200bleads to\u2063 only one conclusion. M-44 cyanide bombs\u200b serve ranchers\u2019 interests by protecting livestock and thus profits.\u200c When those\u200c bombs injure people and\u200b kill pets, \u2064ranchers and their \u2064government agents\u2062 might\u200d feel sorry, but they do\u200d not feel sorry enough to \u2062abandon the practice and risk losing money.<\/p>\n<p>Americans\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tuskegee-anniversary-proof-trusting-govt-health-destroying-lives-decades\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trust in government<\/a> has diminished in\u2062 recent \u2064years. \u2063These kinds of stories will not revive that\u200b trust anytime\u200d soon.<\/p>\n<p>The post\u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/m-44-cyanide-bomb-program-still-ongoing-soon-end-deadly-devices-still-hidden-across-us\/\">M-44 Cyanide Bomb Program Still Ongoing But Could Soon End &#8211; These Deadly Devices Are Still Hidden Across the US<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200b Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After over six years, congressional Democrats have reintroduced a bill to prohibit the harmful practice that poisoned a 14-year-old boy and killed his 3-year-old dog. The legislation aims to prevent such incidents from happening again. Ryan Devereaux of The Intercept shared the story of an Idaho family affected by this practice in a recent article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1987930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}