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PETA is “not impressed” with New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ move to bring in a “rat czar” to help curb The Big Apple’s rodent population boom and is urging the newly-installed “bloodthirsty rat-hater” to look at the human culprit behind the mountains of trash polluting the streets.
“All you have to do is walk down the street to see that we don’t have a rat problem, we have a filthy human behavior problem,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Director of Outreach Ashley Byrne said Tuesday on “Fox & Friends First.”
“We are living under mountains of garbage in this city,” she continued. “As long as that’s the case, the rats will still keep coming no matter how many bodies the city piles up.”
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The logo of the international non-governmental animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is pictured in Stuttgart, southern Germany, on May 13, 2022. (YANN SCHREIBER/AFP via Getty Images)
The group, in a statement published Monday, wrote that waging war on rodents “attacks the problem from the wrong end,” and continued by saying that rats – which are “sensitive, compassionate, and intelligent animals” – are simply “following humans’ lead.”
“Why employ a rat czar to waste taxypayers’ money by trying to treat a symptom when we know how to solve the problem of improper waste management?” the post asked.
The city posted a job opening for the “rat czar” in December, outlining its wish for a candidate with “a virulent vehemence for vermin,” a killer instinct needed to fight the real enemy,” and a “somewhat bloodthirsty” attitude.
Last week Adams introduced former elementary school teacher and anti-rat activist Kathleen Corradi as the city’s first director of rodent mitigation.
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A rat crosses a Times Square subway platform in New York on Jan. 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew,…
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