All the geese in the park are dead

This seems surreal, but all the geese, about 400 of them, in Prospect Park are dead. As of last Thursday. thought it seemed quiet in the bird dept. Seems they were thought to be a hazard for JFK Airport. Also, they were molting and not flying. So the Ag. Dept. gathered them all up and gassed them, the bodies to be put into trash bags and sent to the dump. This seems crazy. According to the article in the times, these were not the geese who have been bothering planes - this was just a precautio9n. Apparently, they could have killed them and used them as food for the hungry - this has been done before. But no, they were just slaughtered and wasted. I know I had referred to them as Nazis, taking over the lake. BUT THAT WAS A LITERARY TROPE, not a call for extermination.

Of course I don't want geese flying into plane engines and bringing them down, but this seems really excessive and horrible. Don't know what else to say.