All in a day’s work. Dutch goose exterminator Den Hertog is discharged with the unfortunate task of having to exterminate hundreds of thousands of gray lag geese per year. While he is on the Dutch government’s payroll which means job security, he is not fond of his work but realizes it has to be done. According to The New York Times, his position is the result of a hunting ban enacted by the Netherlands in 1999. The lag geese population exploded shortly after the ban took place and the birds not only feed on nitrogen-rich fertilizer that farmers use to grow crops but the birds also fly into airliners taking off from Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, they also consume grass in pastures used to feed cows.

Hertog’s extermination business was limited to ridding residences of foxes, birds and other household pests. Upon receiving the contract for Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, he ended up in the crosshairs of the Animal Liberation Front. The group broke into his company’s offices, set fire to one of his office rooms and scribbled graffiti on the wall. Despite making changes to his security needs, he still gets hate mail. Some of the letters gets call him things like a Nazi while others wish him to contract a deadly disease. His extermination involves a mass roundup of geese into a chamber where the animals are gassed and then their bodies disposed of. His methods did elicit some controversy but he has been doing it seven years and has no intention of giving up.

What should be of note is that now Dutch taxpayers, rather than hunters, are on the hook to exterminate geese a different way. The birds are a nuisance to where they disrupt the ability of cattle to eat and can disrupt air traffic. I would dare to argue the disruptions I outline are what groups like Animal Liberation Front really want. The geese consume field grass for cattle which can lead to cattle dying without adequate food and then air traffic can stop since so many geese populate the air. Like environmentalists want larger wolf and bear populations resulting from their efforts having animals listed as protected species so humans can be killed off, the geese in question are an indirect attack on the human food supply and ability to travel by air.

Environmentalists pretend that their goal is to protect nature for people, but the truth is that they want to protect nature from humans. In this case animals are like an army that acts as hurdles to disrupt people’s ability to live and prosper. They attack the human food supply and a vital means for people to transport themselves be it for business or pleasure in order to not only make people’s lives miserable but ultimately in hopes of killing people off.