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Despicable!

I was watching the local news last night and learned some really despicable news that is happening in one of our suburbs. The City of Eden Prairie has a plan to reduce the Canadian goose population within it's city limits...slaughter them! This news is so disturbing to me. How can people be so cruel? Their reason is because the goose population is a nuisance and creating too many goose droppings which costs money to clean-up. How selfish can people be?

This plan is not a permanent fix to any "situation" that the citizens of Eden Prairie are feeling. I am certain that there are many citizens of Eden Prairie that oppose this and align with my opinion. If people took this approach to slaugther nuisances in life more generally, this world would be horrible place that I don't want to even imagine. It's just disgusting! People need to learn patience. Learn ways that can deal with this "situation" in an appropriate and humane matter. I am glad to hear that the Humane Society is stepping up and giving advice on how to deal with this "situation" in an humane matter.

Read these articles to learn more...
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S128701.shtml?cat=1
http://www.edenprairienews.com/node/2309
http://www.startribune.com/106/story/1238853.html

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