PETA are dickholes...but we need to work out an ethical, long term solution, not just wait for it to happen regularly, and lose million plus spend millions trying to put a bandaid on it.
Mice, rabbits, cats, foxes, cane toads...they’re just doing what they do, in a situation caused by people.
With only a few exceptions I can think of, plages don’t happen in the countries the animals originated in....and if they do, it’s usually caused by humans.
I don’t have a panacea. Sterilisation programs would be expensive, but probably be dwarfed by the damage caused. Can’t see anyone willing to pony up the money though.
FWIW, I grew up on a cereal farm where the crops were occasionally decimated, but more so, grain storage was affected and the years income destroyed. Not looking at this though my soy latte sipping goggles.