China Looks For Creative Ways to Piss Off Evangelical Christians
I couldn’t help it. This one was way too enticing.
Forestry officials in far western China have resorted to scattering abortion pills near gerbil burrows in a bid to halt a rodent plague threatening the desert region’s fragile ecosystem, state media said Wednesday.
The pellets, which resemble bran feed, have “little effect on other animals,” but can prevent pregnancy in gerbils and also induce abortion in already pregnant females, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
In 2003, officials installed hundreds of perches for owls and eagles hoping the birds would cut back the rodent population but gerbils have continued to be a problem, it said.
The evangelical gerbil lobby is going to go nuts over this.
By the way, the abortion pill plan was Plan B, following the failed owl-and-eagle Plan A. I wonder what Plan C will be? Special gerbil death squads? Maybe they’ll hire Sarah Palin and a fleet of helicopters to shoot the balls off of all the male gerbils from the air. If Palin is not available, maybe Richard Gere? (Sorry about that, it had to be done.)
Last time when the need of exterminating certain rodents arise, Chinese government instituted a quota of rodent tails for each person. Those failing to comply were harshly punished. Quota’s for each city block, village, county, city were issued. And government officials spent much of their time counting, recording, and reporting tails.
Yup, it did work. Rodents population were reduced. Nothing else gets done, though, including food production.
Ah yes, the good old days. Remember the Four Pests campaign?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_sparrow_campaign)
LOL!!!!!!
Given the dearth of jobs in the U.S. right now. I wonder if I can get pre-approved for employment in the Special gerbil death squads. (“Have stick; will travel”)
I wish I was artistically inclined so I could sketch out a stick-wielding member of the GDS in action.
GDS? I’ve heard gerbils can live in a human’s rectum, so it must take a lot to wipe [sic] out gerbils.