![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
So, here's an odd one...
Every year, New York City rounds up hundreds of geese in the name of airline safety. They're humanely killed and then disposed of. People have been saying that, hey, as long as you're going to kill them, you might as well use them to feed people. There was a similar push a few towns over from us, where the annual influx of migrating geese is considered a major nuisance. In both places, the response was more or less the same: safety issues. The geese are wild, not farm-raised, and individually certifying that each one is safe for human consumption is kind of a problem. This year, however, it seems NYC has come up with a solution.
The solution? Drive them to Pennsylvania, where, apparently, they actually do have an established system to do it. Why can PA do it, and not NY or NJ? I don't know. Overcaution? Bureaucracy? Laziness? Or is it that PA is just more relaxed when it comes to food safety? Well, whatever the case, the birds will go into the stomachs of PA's hungry, and not the engines of NY's airplanes. And the federal government will take care of the interstate transport, since that's apparently covered under the city's contract with the Department of Agriculture. So, provided no one picks up any major diseases, parasites, or what have you... everyone's happy. Except the vegetarians and animal rights activists.
As long as I'm writing, a couple of other quick, random links plucked from my Twitter stream:
Darth Vader has a really inflated ego.
Hoverbike! The comparison to the Star Wars speeder bikes seems rather thin, and, really, it looks like an oversized version of one of those remote-controlled drones (I'm pretty sure at some point there was a two-rotor version of this thing), and I doubt I'd ever ride one, but still... Cool!
Also, linked off that article: That "jetpack" (really more of an odd one-person helicopter) sort of works outdoors now. (The demo version last year had to be kept inside the hangar because even a light breeze made it dangerously uncontrollable.)
Every year, New York City rounds up hundreds of geese in the name of airline safety. They're humanely killed and then disposed of. People have been saying that, hey, as long as you're going to kill them, you might as well use them to feed people. There was a similar push a few towns over from us, where the annual influx of migrating geese is considered a major nuisance. In both places, the response was more or less the same: safety issues. The geese are wild, not farm-raised, and individually certifying that each one is safe for human consumption is kind of a problem. This year, however, it seems NYC has come up with a solution.
The solution? Drive them to Pennsylvania, where, apparently, they actually do have an established system to do it. Why can PA do it, and not NY or NJ? I don't know. Overcaution? Bureaucracy? Laziness? Or is it that PA is just more relaxed when it comes to food safety? Well, whatever the case, the birds will go into the stomachs of PA's hungry, and not the engines of NY's airplanes. And the federal government will take care of the interstate transport, since that's apparently covered under the city's contract with the Department of Agriculture. So, provided no one picks up any major diseases, parasites, or what have you... everyone's happy. Except the vegetarians and animal rights activists.
As long as I'm writing, a couple of other quick, random links plucked from my Twitter stream:
Darth Vader has a really inflated ego.
Hoverbike! The comparison to the Star Wars speeder bikes seems rather thin, and, really, it looks like an oversized version of one of those remote-controlled drones (I'm pretty sure at some point there was a two-rotor version of this thing), and I doubt I'd ever ride one, but still... Cool!
Also, linked off that article: That "jetpack" (really more of an odd one-person helicopter) sort of works outdoors now. (The demo version last year had to be kept inside the hangar because even a light breeze made it dangerously uncontrollable.)
Tags: