My wife pointed this article out to me today, the pigeon population in Hollywood had gotten out of control. In my opinion, that's not the only thing in Hollywood that is out of control, but that is a matter for another post. See article in Yahoo! News:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_re_us/hollywood_pigeons;_ylt=AvWteLdwkhCB.grlna3DUgADW7oF
So, instead of contracting this job out to a couple rednecks with rifles for about 3 weeks, they are going to spend 5 years feeding birds contraceptives to control the population. Does that not seem wrong to anyone else? What we are just putting thousands of pigeons on the pill against their will? Some pigeons may now never fulfill their dream of 2.5 baby pigeons and a cozy nest in the Hollywood suburbs.
Who is going to counsel all the female birds of all the possible side effects? Couldn't dizzy, nauseous, or moody pigeons actually now create a health risk to humans?
What about birth defects? What about male pigeons!?! They are going to be eating this contraceptive food as well, right? Will that turn them gay? Or are they already gay because they are Californian pigeons? If pigeons do form an "alternative lifestyle" race of pigeons, then I think we will have definitive proof that man was not created that way, but environmental changes influenced his persuasion. I know one thing, I feel sorry for those male pigeons. Who knows what will happen to them. We might need to add a couple more food bins to the equation and put bird steroids in those to man up a couple of them.
I'm not sure this is going to work. Won't the pigeons just adapt into a transgender species and continue reproducing.
My favorite line from the article though is is the same as Jeni's: "The poop problem has become unmanageable and this could be the answer." All this, just to solve a poop problem.
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