London Lets Pigeons Get a Square Meal
From Times Wire Reports
London Mayor Ken Livingstone announced that he had struck a deal to allow limited feeding of pigeons in Trafalgar Square.
Livingstone in 2000 banned the feeding and evicted the square’s official birdseed vendor. He argued that the flock was a health hazard and that the cleanup cost $160,000 a year.
But activists staged daily feedings, saying thousands of pigeons would starve.
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