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shrubkiller

wrote:
> In their desperate attempts to conceal the fact that there are a
> great number of animal deaths involved with the production of rice,
> "aras" have been trying to get away with various tricks of deception
> as well as just simple unsupported denial. "pearl" posted claims from
> a rice farmer which I doubted, and still am not convinced of:
>
> "Regrettably, there probably are some small animal deaths. However,
> the number of deaths in a mile of rice harvesting pales in comparison to
> the road kill on a mile of highway. Harvesters move slowly, and they are
> not the high speed machines described in this article." - Kent Lundberg
>
> Though there may be some element of truth in what Lunberg told her,
> her dishonesty regarding the very presence of frogs in rice fields was
> so extreme that it's great reason to distrust anything else she presents.
> While searching for info on the subject, this did appear to back up
> Lunberg's claim that there are a significant number of animals killed
> on highways, but it also lets us know that contrary to "pearls"
> unsupported and apparently very dishonest claim regarding frogs
> in rice fields, it's more than likely that a LOT of frogs (and other animals)
> are killed in rice production as well:
> __________________________________________________ _______
> Some roads, like U.S. 441 across Payne's Prairie in Alachua
> County, and the Tamiami Trail that runs across Florida from
> Miami to Tampa, are virtual abattoirs, greased with the gory
> little bodies of "anurans," as frogs and toads are called
> scientifically. "On Aug. 5, 1991 I stopped counting after
> 10,000," biologist Jim Weimer said in a 1996 interview,
> describing a single night on U.S. 441 across Payne's Prairie.
> "This was just one night. On May 2, 1991, there were over
> 5,000 Southern Leopard Frogs killed."
>
> http://www.cnah.org/news.asp
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> Since sometimes 10,000 frogs are killed in one night just by cars driving
> down roads that frogs do not actually live on, only a fool would believe
> there are not many many more killed in a day or two of machinery doing
> the following to rice fields which such animals do live in:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/kgdll
> http://tinyurl.com/gbl56
> http://tinyurl.com/g9qw8
>
> With the combined information it should now be clear to anyone willing
> to think about it realistically that even if more animals are killed on
> highways than in rice production, many thousands are killed for rice
> none the less, and many more thousands than that die from predators
> after their shelter and habitat (the rice plants) have been removed.
>
> Note: Paynes Prairie State Preserve has since constructed animal
> protection walls:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/jpr2z
>
> along U.S. 441:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/m4dz2

Could we have some photographic evidence of these kills in the rice
fields?