addling

• “In April, volunteers also identified nests and coated recently laid eggs with oil, a process called addling that halts the egg's development.”

  Battery Shots

• “The population, which numbered 4,000 a decade ago, has been reduced to fewer than 500 by "addling" the birds 'eggs so they will not hatch and by killing some.”

  Blog updates

• “I think he probably uses rubber cement to do his hair ... it's the fumes addling his neocon brain.”

  Romney lays out plan to fix economy

• “After noting that marketers make appeals to nostalgia, he tries to show its addling effects by citing an American woman he knows who grew up in Paris and who loves Mars bars—the ones from France.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Amygdala As Sales Tool

• “There are humane population control techniques, such as egg addling, that are known as effective in controlling and ultimately reducing goose population numbers.”

  The Huffington Post: Wayne Pacelle: Gaggle of Problems with New York Plans to Kill Canada Geese

• “The City may also limit growth of the resident geese population through egg-addling or nest destruction.”

  The Huffington Post: Henry J. Stern: Air Rights -- To Die For?

• “Volunteer for egg addling or other humane wildlife control programs for Canada geese or other species targeted for killing by government officials.”

  The Huffington Post: Wayne Pacelle: 55 Actions for Animals

• “For the first time in my life, instead of a loss addling me for an eternity, it was moving me to take a positive action and move forward.”

  Why I Write

• “It seemed more addling to flip through channels with a bad day behind me than it did to just stare into space.”

  Lisa Napoli: Remote Controlled

• “Even some traditional allies of the animal kingdom, such as PETA and the Audubon Society, support egg addling.”

  Newsweek: Even to Friends, The Goose Is Cooked

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