Downtown officials have to decided to feed pigeons birth control. I am not sure how I feel about this. They are going to do this because they find the birds unsightly and claim they poop everywhere. You can read about it here. They also claim the bird droppings corrode away buildings and litter sidewalks. "A giant chunk of a building's facade recently fell in downtown St. Paul and officials suspect those nasty pigeons are to blame." So how would they give them contraceptives do you ask? Well the plan is to put up feeders filled with bird feed that are mixed with the birth control. I have a few questions this article doesn't explain. In fact, this article does not explain much except for the fact that pigeons are "ugly" and ruining the city. Is this feed safe for pigeons? What happens if they eat too much? I know there are side effects and dangers to humans taking birth control, there must be some risk to birds eating it.
Who are officials to play mother nature? We don't go around feeding humans dinner laced with birth control. There are plenty of irritating and usightly children walking around. Does this mean we can limit human births too? Animals are not soley for the use of humans. Animals are a separate species who have just as much as a right to live peacefully on this planet and reproduce freely. Maybe the reason they feel the city is overpopulated with them is because we keep tearing down their homes to build a shopping mall or parking lot.
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