There’s almost certainly some kind of allegorical meaning to an AP article on the deaths of at least three bald eagles – and the illness of a further 10 of them – after they ate the carrion of unspecified euthanized animals carelessly discarded at a landfill outside Minneapolis, it’s just not clear what it is.
Not just the obvious moral lessons of why people should more careful about the natural environment or the savage cruelty of poisoning animals to death which led to the further poisoning deaths of more of them. Those are right up front here. There’s some sort of deeper metaphor for the living symbol of the United States sickened and dead from the wanton wastefulness of American commercial enterprise in the 21st century. Somebody ought to be able to slap it together in a way that causes the reader to pause and contemplate the true cost of modern industry or something.
Or maybe it’s like an omen. The part that says “when the eagles were found some of them were lying motionless, face down in the snow” comes across like a cosmic warning sign of future national upheaval or whatever. There’s a lot to work with here. Oh and at least one of the eagles had bird flu.