800 geese near NYC airports euthanized
romanP @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:40 am
Strutz Strutz:
If the geese must be culled then I see nothing wrong with turning the meat over to a shelter to cook up for their clients.
They euthanised all 800 of them. I think we can assume that doesn't mean they shot them all. They're probably filled with poison now.
And where is PETA in all of this? They love talking about animal holocausts. Maybe that's only for pigs, cows and chickens?
romanP @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:46 am
ridenrain ridenrain:
A quick look around the net shows that the idea of actually using the geese for food is accepted. In the case of New York, they plan to gass the birds and I don't know if they can be eaten after that. It may deped on what they gass them with though.
It only makes sence to use them for something.
zomg. Whoever paid for that video is off their rocker. Proud Canadian symbol or not, animal populations need to be controlled when they get out of hand. We don't have to hunt them to extinction, we just need to keep their numbers down.
newfette @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:00 am
SHOOT EM!
fifeboy @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 8:34 am
ridenrain ridenrain:
fifeboy fifeboy:
The problem here is that not enough people go out in the fall and shoot the buggers with their shotguns. Hunting used to keep the population of geese down to a level where they didn't cause problems. Snow geese are so numerous they are destroying their nesting grounds. Spring goose hunts don't draw enough "guns" to make a dent in the populations.
Sounds like you were clear when you said:
$1:
not enough people go out in the fall and shoot the buggers with their shotguns.
$1:
In Canada, there has been a precipitous drop in the number of waterfowl hunters. From a high of more than 500,000 in the late 1970’s, today there are just over 140,000. In Delta’s view, the loss of waterfowl hunters is a critical waterfowl conservation and management issue that must be addressed, because hunters are most likely to tackle the work necessary to sustain waterfowl populations forever.
Over the past decade, anti-gun coalitions and animal rights groups have increased their presence and impact in campaigns against all forms of animal use and private gun ownership in Canada. Their campaigns have included lobbying, advertising campaigns and letters to the editor in mainstream media.
Moreover, busy, urban Canadians are finding it harder to find opportunities to go afield. Although surveys show many individuals would like to try hunting, there was simply no organized opportunity to be introduced to waterfowl hunting until now.
Declining numbers of hunters in Canada have weakened our political voice and sharply limited the priority for waterfowl management among federal and provincial wildlife management agencies. There have been concurrent reductions in the capabilities of Canadian wildlife agencies to conduct vital research and management for waterfowl and to contribute to waterfowl management on the continent.
Over the past decade, anti-gun coalitions and animal rights groups have increased their presence and impact in campaigns against all forms of animal use and private gun ownership in Canada. Their campaigns have included lobbying, advertising campaigns and letters to the editor in mainstream media.
Moreover, busy, urban Canadians are finding it harder to find opportunities to go afield. Although surveys show many individuals would like to try hunting, there was simply no organized opportunity to be introduced to waterfowl hunting until now.
Declining numbers of hunters in Canada have weakened our political voice and sharply limited the priority for waterfowl management among federal and provincial wildlife management agencies. There have been concurrent reductions in the capabilities of Canadian wildlife agencies to conduct vital research and management for waterfowl and to contribute to waterfowl management on the continent.
http://www.deltawaterfowl.org/waterfowl ... Report.php01Numbers.jpg
Less hunters = more birds.
What does anything you state here have to do with your statements:
ridenrain ridenrain:
I disagree. Do you think these hunters & fishers are all hicks who only live in the hinterland? How do you think the many hunters who live in big cities like Toronto and Vancouver feel about being told they can no longer keep their own property in their own homes?
Or are you just agreeing with me?
Alta_redneck @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:19 am
Most of the farmers around here won't let city people on their land any more to hunt. It's the old saying a few bad apples spoiled it for everyone. And the farmers don't want to register their guns and now they have great difficulty buying any shells. Or so I've been told, I'm not a hunter. Also, seeing all the geese that live in the #3 pond at our waste water plant, I don't think I'd want to eat urban geese.
wildrosegirl @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:27 am
Lemme get this straight...
500 ducks die in a toxic pond in Ft. McMurray and the world is screaming for the mine to be shut down.
800 geese get euthanizied because they're a "road hazzard" to the airport and everyone's okay with that.
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Go figure.
Hyack @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:56 am
Go figure....the "hick town" of Ft. McMurray vs the "Big Apple"...NYNY..... 
novachick @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:59 am
wildrosegirl wildrosegirl:
Lemme get this straight...
500 ducks die in a toxic pond in Ft. McMurray and the world is screaming for the mine to be shut down.
800 geese get euthanizied because they're a "road hazzard" to the airport and everyone's okay with that.
Go figure.
500 ducks die in a toxic pond in Ft. McMurray and the world is screaming for the mine to be shut down.
800 geese get euthanizied because they're a "road hazzard" to the airport and everyone's okay with that.
Go figure.
Hmmmm either we like ducks better than geese
orA toxic pond is also a human health hazard
Planes falling out of the sky because of birds is a human health hazard.
RUEZ @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:53 am
novachick novachick:
Hmmmm either we like ducks better than geese or
A toxic pond is also a human health hazard
Planes falling out of the sky because of birds is a human health hazard.
orA toxic pond is also a human health hazard
Planes falling out of the sky because of birds is a human health hazard.
Both groups of birds died in the name of transportation. It is kind of ironic, and hypocritical.
BAT119 @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:07 pm
[That would be a terrible waste if the meat would end up unsafe for human consumption.
If they were to use the meat for humans it would have to be inspected and properly processed, they would be better off donating it to a Zoo or a game farm.
acidcomplex @ Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:34 pm
there geese who the fuck cares
Lemmy @ Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:21 am
I like an occassional goose.