| In 1958, Mao Zedong declared sparrows enemies of the state because they ate farmers' crops and ordered them eliminated. For seventy-two hours, people made noise and kept the birds from landing. |
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| Birds died by the hundreds of thousands. Of course, the bugs and other vermin that would have been eaten by the birds went unchecked and ate all the grain, causing mass starvation among the people. |
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| Wait a minute... Is this some kind of allegory? | |
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| No, it's a nature story... | |
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