These geese will be cooked

Canada geese represent a serious urban menace. Their molting season presents local governments a short, annual window of opportunity to respond by culling geese en masse. After an outcry over the failure in 2010 to convert culled geese into low-cost, high-protein food, New York officials will not consign this year's harvest to the landfill. Instead, geese from Brooklyn's Prospect Park are destined for slaughter and distribution to food banks.