Thousands of airport geese slaughtered, donated to food pantries in past four years

New York Daily News ^ | Sept. 16, 2017 | James Fanelli

[ConservativeStatement]

Will there be sit-ins?

[lee martell]

Goose Lives Matter!

[Cicero]

As a lot of stories pointed out in earlier years, Canada Geese didn’t fly up that way until the greenies started raising young ones in different places further East down South. They used to only fly up the middle of the country.

But geese have a habit of returning to where they were born.

[FatherofFive]

Goose livers matter!

[2ndDivisionVet]

A former client who I found a good job for sent me a smoked goose for Christmas one year. Unbelievable.

[Jane Long]

Will PETA stage mass protests? Will the “celebrities” all join in?

[dila813]

I bet it cost them 15 dollars a bird just to kill them knowing our government.

[EinNYC]

The way that they capture the geese is beyond cruel. They wait until the molting season during June and July when the geese cannot fly, then round them up, stuff them into crates, separate the goslings from their families. The frantic cheeping of the frightened goslings is heartbreaking. This is all because of Kirstin Gillibrand having railroaded legislation through about 2 years ago allowing USDA murder squads to enter federal preserves to capture Canada geese. They didn't bother to explore other non-lethal methods of goose control suggested by conservation and birding groups, they just went ahead with the trapping and slaughter. It hasn't made a bit of difference in the population, because geese migrating through decide to stay and bring the population right back up.

This is NOT a good program. And this crap about "feeding the hungry" through food pantries is pure baloney. Who wants to eat the flesh of birds which have been exposed to jet fuel, boat residues, pesticides, etc.? No, the garbage about food pantries is just to put a bit of thin window dressing on a very cruel program.

The Canada geese were always voted a favorite bird by my biology students when we took field trips to Jamaica Bay. How could I explain to them that the birds they admired, particularly the babies, would be rounded up and slaughtered at the end of the summer?

[Pontiac]

Jeffrey Kramer, a member of animal rights group GooseWatchNYC, said donating the trapped geese was a way to spin a stomach-turning program. “There’s an ulterior motive. It makes it easier to swallow,” Kramer said of the killings.

His group says the city’s airports should invest in better radar systems to avoid bird-plane collisions — not kill the animals.

Idiot

How is better radar going to avoid bird strikes?

Birds do not file flight plans. Nor do they fly predictable routes. They change direction without notice.

A flock on the ground this minute can be in the air the next minute for no particular reason.

Radar is pretty darned good right now. It is not that the birds do not show up on radar that is the issue.

[Brandonmark]

What about the Foie Gras?

[hanamizu]

They may be your students’ favorite bird, but they have become pests. In my wife’s hometown in N. Illinois, their droppings befoul the lake beaches so much that no one can use them. Because they are “migratory” waterfowl (who no longer migrate) they are protected by treaty and federal law, so the locals cannot really do anything about them. And if they choose to live near airports, they are a threat to human life.

[Cold Heart]

Glad I read the article. Goose cheeseburgers come highly recommended.

[Vince Ferrer]

Didn’t know they were good to eat.

[Holdem Or Foldem]

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[Holdem Or Foldem]

Mickey plays you music to weep to.

[clearcarbon]

"Thousands of airport geese slaughtered, donated to food pantries in past four years"

Sign on airport fence:


WARNING

Trespassing Foreign
Nationals will be
Eaten

[SmokingJoe]

USDA murder squads?
Are you for real?

[dila813]

Maybe enough radar to microwave them out of the air?

[Taxman]

Canadian Geese are varmits, and deserve to be treated as such!

Good riddance!

[Crucial]

I’m glad those pests are being put to good use.