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Bird FeederHave you been filling your bird feeder with a Scotts Miracle-Gro brand of birdseed? If so, you might have been poisoning birds instead of serving them a nice snack. In January, Scotts pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that from 2005 to 2008 it distributed 73 million units of birdseed coated with insecticides called Storcide II and Actellic 5E - chemicals which were intended to keep insects from eating the seed. The problem? Bug-zapping chemicals like Storcide II can also be lethal to birds, a fact that Scotts looked past when producing and selling its feed .1
Bird seedHave you been filling your bird feeder with a Scotts Miracle-Gro brand of birdseed? If so, you might have been poisoning birds instead of serving them a nice snack. In January, Scotts pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that from 2005 to 2008 it distributed 73 million units of birdseed coated with insecticides called Storcide II and Actellic 5E - chemicals which were intended to keep insects from eating the seed. The problem? Bug-zapping chemicals like Storcide II can also be lethal to birds, a fact that Scotts looked past when producing and selling its feed .2
