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did this result in Massachusetts banning the sale of rat poison?

She has unfortunately passed since this article was published :( RIP MK 🦅

It shouldn't have been in a place accessible by a non target animal like a bird in the first place, per the law and the label. Someone is gonna be in big fuckin trouble if they figure out who is tossing rat bait into the open like that.

The bird ate a rat that ate the poison.

Not sure what kinda rat poison they are using, but most would have to eat a lot of poisoned rodents in a short span to get secondary sickness nowadays. I use it for a living lol. Anyway, here come some new federal regulations!

As there should considering that rat contraceptive is just as effective but without the side effects on other animals and without the rats dying painful deaths.

Hopefully it might considering rat contraceptive is at least as effective and doesn’t kill other animals through second hand poison and also doesn’t have the rats dying in horrible pain.

Also article directly counters your claim of needing to ingest numerous rodents and personally I’m going with the scientists studying the birds not a random person working for a company with a vested interest in rat poison.

It all depends on how big the predator is, how big the prey is, how much they consumed and was metabolized before predation. It doesn't magically kill anything that eats it or there'd be dead cats in every street of every city. The older generation of rodenticides were quite lethal to secondary ingestion though, that's for damn sure. Additionally, technically speaking, according to the manufacturer, the rodents are supposed to lose consciousness from the anti coagulant well before death, it isn't a pain inducer.

Also, the article is biased in the same way a company using a rodenticide is in the opposite direction. Sensationalism exists.