Comments on: 800 Geese Near NYC Airports Euthanized

Birds Culled In Effort To Reduce Airplane Mishaps

[Newster1]

by aChangeOfIdeas June 20, 2009 1:59 PM PDT
I agree! 800 geese could have fed a lot of hungry people. How ignorant to "euthanize" them."

800 geese wouldn't provide but one sandwich for a few thousand people, one sandwich doesn't sustain anything, it's like ignoring the homeless 364 days a year and then stuffing them with Turkey on Thanksgiving and shoving them out the door into the cold again.

[kerry4ever]

Quote "800 geese wouldn't provide but one sandwich for a few thousand people". Well a Canada Goose is quite big, and could easily feed six people. Obviously they would have to bring their own stufing and roast potatoes and vegetables but were are talking nearly 5,000 people being fed. And if you take my idea and stuff them first with oatmeal to get foie gras, which the rich would pay handsomely for, they would not even have to pay for their own vegetables. It seems to be a win - win situation to me, and could actually redistribute wealth and help the poor.

[Newster1]

Illuminated1 June 19, 2009 8:05 PM PDT
Did they have to kill them?"

Yup, see corporate money comes FIRST, control costs profits, it's easier to just wholescale blast them away, much like the livestock industry did to the Wolves when the people invaded the wolves' territory in the West and began a systematic wholescale slaughter of everything and anything that was a "threat" to the rancher's PROFITS.
Of course they got the US Govt and taxpayers to foot the bills for all that disaster.

[aChangeOfIdeas]

I agree! 800 geese could have fed a lot of hungry people. How ignorant to "euthanize" them.

[cgm625]

I truly dont understand the thought process behind killing 800 Geese or even 2000 to address and engineering fault

In doing so, they are stating that an air crafts engine cannot be modified to accommodate a bird strike. By killing 800 or 2000 animals we are reducing risk by how much ? To me, they are doing whatever they can publicly to show they are taking action, instead they should be be forcing the airlines to design equipment that can accommodate common obstacles....like birds :-)

[kerry4ever]

You could even have stuffed the goose with oatmeal to get some lovely foie gras before giving it a good roasting. That would make the whole thing economically viable, as the rich would have the gras, and the poor would have the goose. It would even be good for the goose as they love to be stuffed.

[mojo1372]

there are plenty of people who go to the food pantries and soup kitchen here in nyc . they could have had them cleaned up, frozen and distributed to the different places.that is a waste . think about how many people 2,000 geese could feed. you can feed about 6 people on one bird.

[TheStolenGiraffe]

yea use the word euthanized, when what they really mean is 900 Geese murdered; and all because one of them got in the way of an airplane. where are all the animal rights activists who cried "off with Mike Vick's head" now?

[Sloughfoot]

Your very presence on this planet results in the deaths of thousands of animals during your lifetime. It's your fault "Baby" and every other upright gaited creature. Admit it "We don't share well with other creaters", makes it easier that way. Heck, we don't share well with ourselves.

[Sloughfoot]

The Public's fish, swimming in the Public's water in the Public's river are being threathened by Private Corporations which do not want to drill their own wells on their own property. Get your facts straight and by the way they're raising almonds in a dessert during a drought. Dah!

[Sloughfoot]

Took you a lot of words to get there but your last two sentences say it all.