For them to suggest this is putting it above human issues is simply a strawman argument. One can certainly care about both.

As for your question, I think it is a good idea to ban them. It is better to be progressive rather than hold on to crude and brutal methods that really have no place in civilised society. The aim is to kill them, not cause as much pain as possible.

The trap instructions encourage people just to “chuck them” out into the rubbish, that presumably means starving them to death. When they attempt to get off (which they will), they’ll get pretty badly injured. This is really, in the end, animal abuse, because this level of agony can quite easily be avoided. No point to it at all, unless one is a sadist.

I have a lot of friends in their late 30′s/early 40′s who are still living with roommates and don’t want to be.

Unfortunately because no one can buy everyone is renting in a city that was already pretty expensive. It’s getting to the point where I’m considering leaving my city because I can’t afford to live here anymore.

It really is a landlord’s market and most landlords are pretty terrible people.