Animal Lovers Ruining Environment in Missouri

Save the environment, kill a pet (or at least clean up after them)...

Yard by yard, say officials, pet owners should pick up the pace of picking up after their pets.

Water quality experts say waste from pets and domesticated animals may be partly to blame for bacteria levels in the Little Sac River that are sometimes too high for activities such as swimming and wading.

Although the Sylvesters clean up after their dogs, there's suspicion people who don't may be contributing to high bacteria levels in the river.

Levels are so high that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources has formed a plan to make the river cleaner.

City and state employees say there are no plans to force people to clean up after their dogs, but they hope that encouraging people to do so could keep the river cleaner.

The study also shows that horses and wild geese are major contributors to the bacterial pollution. Where are the protestors? Where's the outrage? Where's Greenpeace? The Clean Water Action Committee? I guarantee if it were a business polluting the environment they would be pushing for an all out ban of the practice. Where are the shouts to eliminate the goose, ban the horse and lock up the shitzu? Hypocrisy again from the environmental fundamentalists.