Food banks, where people on minimum incomes can pick up free supplies, are to be given some of the geese shot around Schiphol to prevent ‘bird strikes’ which can bring down airplanes.

The organisation asked if it could have the birds to hand out as meat because most poulterers will only pay a small amount for wild geese. There is not much flesh on them and they are fiddly to prepare for cooking, Nos television reports.
There is a great deal of interest in goose flesh throughout Noord-Nederland province, where 35,000 geese were shot last year,
Wild goose is also eaten throughout the country, mainly in expensive restaurants.
The first 24 geese will be presented to the food bank on Thursday.