Protesters Again Urge Freeholders to End Gassing of Canada Geese
Ocean County officials say nonlethal programs have been expensive and ineffective; activists decry inhumane gassing
Protesters holding cutouts of Canada geese and buttons picturing the birds urged the Ocean County Board of Freeholders again to abandon a contract with the federal government that provides for the killing of Canada geese as a measure of population control. The protesters — about a dozen or so, representing GooseWatch NJ and the Humane Society of the United States as well as a handful of Ocean County residents — spoke in particular about the method used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for killing the geese: rounding them up while they are unable to fly and then gassing them with carbon dioxide. Since 2008, the county has contracted with the USDA for removal of a portion of the county's population of Canada geese. The contracts have …
Marcel Kay
6:09 pm on Saturday, April 27, 2013
Cooked Goose , Yummy, why gas this wonderfull and tasty Renewable Resource! We need to harvest these birds and process them and feed them to the Inmates of the prison system ! Same goes for those pesky Deer that ruin the Crops and damage all of our cars ! more ›