Only Noah Saw It Coming, Forty Days And Forty Nights...

One country's "solution":<br />
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...the rampant Yangtze River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats, beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay 136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat.<br />
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<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/07/WeeklyReview2007-07-24">http://harpers.org/archive/2007/07/WeeklyReview2007-07-24</a><p>---<br>"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." <br />
-Max Planck<br />
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