These geese were crossing my parking lot Monday, which led to my excitement about getting a really good photo. Sadly, I didn't get their best sides as they rushed to escape the paparazzi.
Recently, two hundred fifty Canada geese were captured at Birmingham's East Lake Park and killed. East Lake is close to the Birmingham airport so they were deemed a potential hazard, citing the Hudson River landing incident in New York. If that was not bad enough, we were reassured that they had been taken to a processor and were on their way to feed the hungry at the United Way Food Bank. (Really!?! I said in my best Amy Poehler voice.)
I attempt to write a food blog so I am always looking at recipes. I don't recall ever seeing a recipe for Canada Goose Casserole, but apparently there are a few recipes available. I have to wonder if these were really meant for a farm raised goose and not the ones with the charming personalities.
I am trying to work out how I feel about this practice.
1. They are my neighbors. It just seems so wrong.
2. So what if they are considered loud, pesky poop machines? Babies can be loud, pesky poop machines, too.
3. Just because someone is poor and/or hungry does not mean that one can just feed them anything and expect gratitude. If I wouldn't eat it then I don't believe a poor and/or hungry person should have to eat it either.
I would not want an airplane to crash because of an influx of geese but there should be a better method of controlling the population. What would a Canadian do, I wonder?
2 comments:
You've definitely never tasted a grilled, wild Canada goose morsel paired with cream cheese and jalapeno, then. You'd be blogging the recipe! Seriously, the resident Canada goose population in Alabama (we don't get many migrants here, except for a few small pockets in northeast Alabama...and residents are on average 5 lbs heavier than migrants) was recently estimated to be 34,000. The Mississippi Flyway plan of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan states the population target for Alabama is 25,000. In a location where they are indeed a threat to aircraft (within 1/2 mile of each runway), these birds are best removed. As long as a cook knows what they are doing, this meat provides much-needed protein and nutrition to whomever consumes it.
Fiddle1 - Interesting. I'll check it out. Thanks for your comment.
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