City rounds up nuisance wild geese and gives them to impoverished families to eat
Denver in Colorado decided to take drastic action after its goose population exploded, and other humane attempts to get rid of the birds failed
A city overrun with nuisance geese is donating them to poor families to eat to try and cut their numbers.
Officials in Denver, Colorado, have been ordered to round up the birds after their population exploded to 5,000 in recent years.
They say the geese will then be taken to a plant at a secret location to be ‘processed.’
Afterwards, the free-range meat will go to needy families.
Denver Parks and Recreation spokesman Scott Gilmore said the city had decided to take drastic action after geese began attacking people, eating vegetation and pooping all over grass, as well as docks and resevioirs.
Gilmore stressed other humane measures – including trying to scare them away using a robot ‘goosinator’, and covering their unhatched eggs in cooking oil – failed.
He added: ‘The geese populations within the city have just exploded.
‘We get so many complaints about people coming out here with a blanket to sit on the grass, and they cannot sit on the grass because there’s so much goose poop in the parks.’
Denver began its goose cull earlier this month, but has refused to say where the birds are being taken to be slaughtered.
The city does not want to eradicate its goose population entirely, but insists the current numbers are unsustainable.
One unnamed local told Fox31: ‘I’ve been here many years, I don’t really see it as a problem.
‘In fact, I think they’re kind of cute.’
Another added: ‘I’ve been here many years, I don’t really see it as a problem.
‘In fact, I think they’re kind of cute.’