Geese are geniuses at being geese. We couldn’t do anything like it. We suck at being geese, but we are capable of recognizing goose goosiness when we see it.
Yet we put them in ridiculously small, crowded cages. Don’t have to. We could display them in a goose-friendly setting. We don’t. Our shame.
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This is an image from the Interior Provincial Exhibition and Stampede in Armstrong, in the north of the Okanagan.
Categories: Agriculture, Gaia, Other People, Spirit
Okanagan Okanogan 
I’m hoping this was simply the cage the goose was transported in to the fair. Otherwise it would certainly need more space, and I’d be surprised if it didn’t make its displeasure known!
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Sadly, many dozens of geese and ducks and hundreds of chickens were all in these kind of things, for display, FOR DAYS. Rather grim. There’s no need for it. A few were physically suffering. Most were just disrespected or depressed.
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That is dreadful! If the owners are proud of their birds — and presumably they are, else why be at the exhibition — they should make sure they have decent conditions, at home or away. How can people who’ve raised these creatures be so utterly lacking in sensitivity to their needs?
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They are farmers. A practical lot. The cages are very clean. The birds are clean. The birds have other birds. The farmers will eventually whack their heads off. It’s just that this method of display displays all that, but doesn’t let the birds display their bird-ness. They get to display their captivity. And that’s not much use.
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Not much use at all, but I’m glad the cages and their occupants were kept clean. Heads being whacked off? All animals, even humans, have to eat so that’s to be expected. Perhaps a better fate than being caught by a fox or hawk?
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