"Their goose is cooked! City to kill at least 2,000 geese near LaGuardia, JFK over bird strike fears."
Is this supposed to be funny? It isn't.
And nice going Department of Agriculture:
Deputy Mayor Ed Skyler said the city will contract with the U.S. Agriculture Department to round up the geese and share the cost with the Port Authority.
Some morons decided to build an airport in a KNOWN migratory path and now this is their solution to the "problem"? Let's just gas 2000 geese.
If society will truly be judged by how it treats it's animals, these people will surely rot in hell.
Guess this, from APHIS, has no real meaning either:
Feeding of waterfowl may contribute to the problem of waterfowl conflicts with humans. In addition, migratory and nonmigratory Canada geese, like all native waterfowl in the United States, are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and State laws. Under these laws, it is illegal to hunt, kill, sell, purchase, or possess migratory birds except as permitted by regulations enforced by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS).