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| | Animal Damage Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Every year, ADC spends millions of dollars to kill thousands of predators coyotes, wolves, bears, mountain lions, and many others as a subsidy for the livestock industry.The animals are shot, poisoned, gassed, snared, and caught in leghold traps. |
 | | ADCs response to anti-poison campaigns in the 80s was to facilitate its move from the Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which livestock owners felt was too soft on predators, to the presumably less "predator-friendly" Department of Agriculture. |
 | | ADC cyanide guns (which previously were powered by an explosive rather than a spring-loaded charge) have killed several people who pulled on them. |
| www.predatordefense.org /issues/adc.htm (2666 words) |
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