Comments on: Four Ways to Value a Goose ~ animal policy lessons from Flight 1549

By: Susan Yager: Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Says, "Let Them Eat Geese" - SparkInjector.com

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:40:59 +0000

[...] US Airways flight 1549, aka “the miracle on the Hudson.” But, when it was repeatedly pointed out that 1) those birds were migratory, and the ones in New York City parks, perfectly happy to stay at [...]

By: Susan Yager: Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Says, "Let Them Eat Geese" | Gluten-Free-Blog

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:22:45 +0000

By: Susan Yager: Billionaire Mayor Bloomberg Says, "Let Them Eat Geese" | Stars on Stars Confidential

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:15:34 +0000

[...] mishap with US Airways flight 1549, aka "the miracle on the Hudson." But, when it was repeatedly pointed out that 1) those birds were migratory, and the ones in New York City parks, perfectly happy to stay at [...]

By: Jessica at Vegbooks

Jessica at Vegbooks — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:45:32 +0000

Good article! I lived in New York at the beginning of this controversy, and for me, the issue is two-fold: Is there any way to preserve life (both human and goose)? And if not, is our “solution” humane?

Considering the intrinsic value of the geese does not distract from considering the humaneness of the way the geese are killed. If the geese need not be killed, then we must stop killing them. If they must be killed, then we must do so as humanely as possible.

I applaud HSUS for keeping the focus on the ability of communities and geese to coexist peacefully. Had HSUS weighed in on the method that officials used to kill the birds, the organization would have been implicitly accepting the assumption that they needed to be killed in the first place –and that’s something I don’t think anyone has demonstrated, particularly given evidence that these geese were migratory, not resident.