On Friday, The New York Times reported that the State of New York is planning to murder approximately 170,000 Canada geese, as part of a strategy to increase the safety of passenger aircraft. The Times quotes the Department of Agriculture as approving of the plan, with an official stating that the state is "leading the way." The geese would be put in crates, gassed, and buried.
I'm a bit surprised that more attention isn't being paid to this barbaric plan, which seems to have been relatively uncontroversial. In fact, the geese-killings are being reported quite lightly. The multi-agency report recommending the slaughter was amicably agreed to by all involved, merely pointing out that the geese were not meeting current "population goals." The Albany Herald cheerfully punned that the geese were running "afowl," and back when Canada geese first started being vilified by New Yorkers (when they put Flight 1549 in the Hudson River), the New York Post quoted a "wildlife biologist" as suggesting that gassing didn't go far enough:
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