Goose Eggs and Babies

            Why do we need physical prisons when our minds and tongues have been incarcerated?

            I sit in a company staff meeting and listen to a colleague share about a problem one of her communities is having with geese around its lake. What can they do to control the geese? Their feces will kill the lake and pollute the surrounding land. In the course of her presentation she talks about the treatment of eggs, she uses the word “humane” and there is a grave acknowledgment in the audience that yes, indeed, the eggs of geese must be treated humanely.

            We have the liberty to talk about the humane treatment of unborn geese; we do not have the liberty to talk about the treatment of unborn babies; we don’t see the incongruity. I have to go now; my keeper has just thrown a piece of cheese into the cage.