http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2016/06/pesky-geese-to-become-food-for-the-homeless/
8:37 pm, June 25, 2016
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Pesky geese at two parks in Maryland will soon be turned into food for the homeless, after attempts to control their population by non-lethal methods over the years have failed.

David Petersen, natural resources specialist for Montgomery Parks, said that 100 to 150 geese will be taken from Martin Luther King Jr. Recreational Park in Silver Spring, Maryland and Rock Creek Regional Park near Gaithersburg.

The bird round up is expected to happen between the end of June and the middle of July.The geese will be processed and the meat will be donated to the Maryland Food Bank.

“We didn’t jump to this method,” said Petersen. “It’s not something we take lightly.”


Excessive feces is one of the problems with the geese, which can produce up to a pound a day per bird.

Petersen said the feces carries potentially harmful bacteria that impacts the water quality at the parks and causes unsanitary conditions on athletic fields and lawn areas.

Petersen said the birds’ grazing can damage turf and athletic fields. He said that, in the spring, the geese are protective of their nests and can attack people, which can be a problem for small children.

The Humane Society of the United States has voiced its concern over the plans and would prefer the park system exhaust every non-lethal type of management.

“For a number of years we’ve been trying to control the geese and the issues they bring,” Petersen said. “We’ve had everything from mess management to habitat landscape manipulation, some control devices such as sprinklers and bubblers in the ponds at MLK. All these things have been marginally effective.”

So now, he said, they’ve decided to take next step to remove of the geese from the site.

“For us it’s the first time we’ve used this method, but it is by no means unprecedented in our area,” he said.

Petersen said this is a problem up and down the East Coast.

“Throughout the region, this is a control method that’s been used for decades,” he said. “It’s used anywhere from local agencies up to federal agencies, as well as private entities, homeowners associations not only in the region but also in the country, too.”

Cant we just kill the homeless and save the geese? The geese carry less disease than the homeless



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biscuit lip Wrote:
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> Cant we just kill the homeless and save the geese?
> The geese carry less disease than the homeless

The geese are not being killed for the homeless you imbecile just being fed to them so they don't go to waste.

You wouldn't underatand.

Why can't we kill Gerry and feed him to the homeless? Then again, Gerry reeks of curry. Not even the homeless would want to eat his rank ass.

Let's kill all the homeless, all the geese, and Gerry, then let God sort it out

Did rush Limbaugh who makes 35 million a year teach you to hate the homeless?

A large percentage of homeless have mental disorders, who should be in mental facilities, but liberals for years now have been mainstreaming these people , leaving them homeless, not in nice facilities. So it's another one of many problems caused by liberal policies, thanks Gerry!

There isn't mental health care for those that are poor because of mental health problems in America because of stupid fucking animalistic Republicans.

So it's OK to allow millions of deer to propagate unchecked on the east coast where they cause deaths by auto accidents and millions of $ in wrecks to occur, because the ball-less libs won't allow them to be culled to more reasonable populations. The deer are responsible for providing the out of control tick populations spreading the Borrelia burgdorferi parasites that have caused the epidemics on Lyme disease in these parts.

The geese were here long before the developers usurped their territories used for nesting and foraging. Geese eat grass. Poop is simply digested grass and seeds in fertilizer form. Saves the county a ton of $ in spreading lawn service chemicals.

And the deer would feed the homeless populations forever along the entire east coast. A couple of geese aren't going to provide more than a meal or two per person. Somebody has their priorities screwed up. Why not just collect them and air mail them back to Canada where they came from?

Geese/Goose is terrible meat, no matter how you cook it. Dogs and cats don't eat them. The Asian will eat rocks, so geese/gooses won't make a difference to them. They do cook the hell out it to make eatable.

Venison is a lot better and eatable.