Do you happen to know when the last time was that a rich company was prosecuted for this?
It seems a lot like the perjury laws: there to scare poor people into telling the truth because of almost non-existant prosecution of it.
And if it is a fine and not jail time (white collar crimes are almost never jail time) the fine would have to be much larger than the penalties they would not have to pay because of the crime, otherwise it is simply a net win for the company
We have a few smaller rats in our garden. They sometimes go after compost food scraps or our vegetable garden (though with the vegwtables hard to know if it is the rats, mice, birds, rabbits, or martens)
Does anyone know if rats are bad to have in the garden or if they control other pests or something and we just need to keep them from getting inside?