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Animal lovers ask Westchester to spare geese from future mass killings

Originally published: February 20, 2013 6:10 PM
Updated: February 20, 2013 6:23 PM
By BETTY MING LIU  betty.liu@cablevision.com

Animal activists are meeting with WC officials to

The controversy began last summer when Westchester offcials euthanized hundreds of geese. (February 20, 2013 12:56 PM)

Westchester County officials told animal advocates Wednesday that the July 2012 decision to kill hundreds of geese at a county-owned golf course likely would not be repeated.

The move, in which county Parks Department workers rounded up 500 geese from a Yonkers golf course and sent the meat to a food processing plant to be turned into goose burgers that were fed to the poor, was roundly criticized...

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