News Locusts!
posted by July 6 at 12:15 PM
onPosted by Sage Van Wing
Desert Locust swarms from Ethiopia and northern Somalia are expected to cross the Indian Ocean and could reach India and Pakistan in the next days, says the UN. Two recent tropical cyclones have caused heavy rainfall in Pakistan and western India that will create unusually favorable breeding conditions for locust (yikes!). The governments in India and Pakistan have been warned and they are mobilizing field teams, equipment and resources (what can these teams do? what equipment?).
A Desert Locust adult consumes roughly its own weight in fresh food per day—about two grams. An average swarm eats as much food in one day as about 2,500 people. This is where most of our cotton comes from, people! Buy your American Apparel now!
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Here's one thing global warming believers and bible enthusiasts can agree on: Our future looks extra locusty.
Clearly this situation calls for several hundred thousand portable deep-fat friers...
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LOL! There's an idea....
@2 And I think I know just the two Stranger writers to man them...
Locusts are good eating, so at least our South Asian compatriots won't starve.
cotton could come from the south again.
but its hard to grow without slave labor. bring us more of those "hardest working americans" from mexico, he said with his usual irony.
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