Good News for Geese!

July 2004

Thanks to pressure and guidance from PETA, many jurisdictions are dumping cruel round-up and slaughter methods to control populations of Canada geese and adopting nonlethal programs.

After years of battles between animal rights activists and USDA-Wildlife Services over Canada geese in Seattle, a nonlethal program implemented this past summer has been a great success.

Another hard-won victory for Canada geese in Clarkstown, New York, where local officials announced that the comprehensive nonlethal goose-management program, implemented just a few years ago, has succeeded in reducing the town’s goose population.

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 Ingrid E. Newkirk

“Almost all of us grew up eating meat, wearing leather, and going to circuses and zoos. We never considered the impact of these actions on the animals involved. For whatever reason, you are now asking the question: Why should animals have rights?” READ MORE

— Ingrid E. Newkirk, PETA President and co-author of Animalkind