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Birds face many man-made mortal threats: windows, cats, habitat destruction, even climate change. And now, there's poison—in their bird seed.
鳥類面臨著許多人類制造的致命威脅：窗戶，貓，棲息地破壞，甚至是氣候變化。然而如今，鳥類食用的植物種子又出現(xiàn)毒素。
You see the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company had been in the habit of applying banned pesticides to its wild bird food products. In particular, the company applied a chemical known as Storcide II to its bird food despite a warning label for that product that reads "Storcide II is extremely toxic to fish and toxic to birds and other wildlife."
你是知道的，Scotts Miracle-Gro 公司早就習(xí)慣于在野生鳥類食物上噴灑禁止使用的殺蟲劑。最為特別的是，這家公司在鳥食中加入一種叫做 Storcide II 的化學(xué)物質(zhì)，盡管在產(chǎn)品標(biāo)簽上示有警告“Storcide II 對魚類毒性極強，對鳥類和其它野生物也有毒害?！?/div>
Why add a compound toxic to birds to food meant to be eaten by birds? Because Scott didn't want bugs infesting its bird food during storage.
為什么這家公司會在鳥類的食物上摻入有毒物質(zhì)呢？因為 Scott 不想讓害蟲大批出沒于儲存的鳥食里。
By the time Scotts stopped adding the pesticide in March 2008, the company had sold some 70 million bags of adulterated bird food. The company also submitted false documents to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, distributed pesticides with misleading labels and distributed illegal pesticides. As a result, the EPA slapped the company with $12.5 million in criminal fines and civil penalties.
直到2008年3月 Scotts 才停止向鳥食中添加殺蟲劑，之前這家公司總共出售了七千萬袋摻假的鳥食。這家公司還向美國環(huán)境保護(hù)局遞交了虛假文件，散布貼有誤導(dǎo)人標(biāo)簽的殺蟲劑，并且散布非法農(nóng)藥。結(jié)果美國環(huán)保局對該公司進(jìn)行刑事和民事處罰，罰金高達(dá)一千二百五十萬美元。
So when you put out new bird seed this winter, at least you won't be inadvertently poisoning any chirpers. Oh, and keep those cats inside, too.
因此，今年冬季向室外播撒鳥食時，至少不要在無意間毒害鳥類。啊，還要把貓關(guān)在家里。
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