it's only "unneccessary" if they ain't on your property...come on folks....the lizards are not on the endangered spieces list...they are a pain and they're becoming a pest like roaches.
next it'll be fish...don't kill 'em...but then what will the veggies eat? i guess chickens...have you ever seen a chicken processing plant...makes freezing lizards real gentle.

As an animal lover my whole life,an Iguana enthusiast for the past 15 years I have to agree with both sides. Yes i think it is awfully cruel to have them freeze dried like chicken and duck. I think that there are many other options for the Iguana, just another story of the lack of funding.
On the other side, I HAVE seen a chicken processing plant and there are no words for that, good bad or nothing at all..just..wow. I don't have Iguana's in my yard per say, but my father does. And he too used to enjoy Iguana's, until he had a wild one in his yard. It destroyed garden of rare and exotic plants. Washing the feces off took paint off the dock.

So, with sharing that- here is MY opinion. I think what bothered me the most, was not the killing, and freezing humanely, not the plant eating dock ruining..what bothers me, is how these beautiful and ancient creatures, were so valiantly photographed in the paper, as they are after all our ancient dragons from myth. And below it, it's fate typed in ink.
Not once, but twice!! The Eagle and the ETC. Have some tact! There's writing a gruesome story..and then there's writing a gruesome story and adding picture's to rectify.