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An opponent of the use of 1080 poison says threatening to lace baby formula with the pesticide was not appropriate but had certainly created an impact.
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Mary Molloy of the West Coast group Farmers Against Ten Eighty said she did not support the action, in which anonymous letters containing small packages of milk powder laced with the poison were last November sent to Fonterra and Federated Farmers.

The threat was made public this afternoon.

But she said she could understand the frustration.

“It is extremely unfortunate but I am not surprised because people are so frustrated. Most people I know do not want to subject any living thing to 1080,” she said.

Molloy has not been visited or questioned by police in relation to the threat and she had no idea who could be responsible.

Asked how the tactic would affect the anti-1080 campaign, Molloy said groups had been trying to ban its use with “common-sense and science” but this response showed someone had reached the end of their tether.

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