Protest Slaughter of Canada Geese in Denver, Colorado
Denver Parks and Recreation Manager Scott Gilmore calls it a "rodeo"
As summarized by Julie Marshall in Boulder County's Daily Camera, July 1: "Two weeks ago, our tax dollars paid a gaggle of federal employees to stalk Canada geese by land and by lake at Denver's highly popular Washington Park, without witnesses, at the break of dawn. It was hardly a stealthy operation, because seasonally molting geese cannot fly. The goose hunt was triggered by Denver Parks and Recreation, whose manager, Scott Gilmore, explains that it's mostly about poop. People complain a lot about goose poop, he says. And so up to 2,200 geese will be rounded up this year, poisoned or gassed, and churned into meat to feed to poor families, our government tells us."
Read the article: Mindless cruelty for the sake of a tidy park
In The Healing Power of Geese and Other Animals, June 30, Marc Bekoff, PhD, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, describes the magnificence of these geese and criticizes the horrific terror attack being conducted in Denver on them and their goslings:
"Humans are usually the reason why geese go where they go, and when they become a nuisance, some humans favor culling them. Of course, 'culling' is a way to sanitize what they're really doing, and that is killing them. Sometimes those responsible for these killing sprees or those who carry them out say they're euthanizing whoever is on their hit list. This also is misleading because euthanasia refers to mercy killing because an individual is in interminable pain or incurably ill. It's the last and most difficult choice that people have to make, and geese who are being killed in Denver are healthy bird beings."
What Can I Do?
Please sign & share this Petition to Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock urging that Denver Parks and Recreation Manager Scott Gilmore be fired:
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United Poultry Concerns