March 17, 2025

BRAIN-INVADING PLASTIC CRISIS! Plus SHOCKING Benefits of SWEARING and The Government Wants You to EAT WHAT?! 🧠🤬🐀

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SCIENTISTS DISCOVER microplastics in HUMAN BRAINS as experts warn of INVISIBLE health EMERGENCY! 😱 Meanwhile, researchers prove CURSING increases PAIN TOLERANCE and PHYSICAL STRENGTH (your grandma was WRONG)! PLUS: Piglets KIDNAPPED from controversial art exhibition by 10-year-old's father in DRAMATIC HEIST! 🐷 And the federal government's DISTURBING new solution to invasive species - PUT THEM ON YOUR DINNER PLATE! The swamp rat that tastes like TURKEY and the SHOCKING number of plastic particles in your bottled water! Government cookbook includes recipes YOU WON'T BELIEVE!

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Callaroga shark media from Washington, d C.

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Where our politicians have been perfecting the art of making

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us suffer for years without calling it an exhibition.

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This is ballot.

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I read a lot of stupid stories hosting this thing,

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but this first one is insane.

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Let's hit this.

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Hi. I'm Patrick Gutfield, and an art exhibition in Denmark

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decided to let three piglets starve to death as art

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and somehow we're the ones who don't understand art. This

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Chilean artist Marco Everisti created what he called the and

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Now You Care Exhibition because nothing says caring like animal

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cruelty with shopping carts. Plot twist, the piglets named Lucia, Simon,

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and Benjamin were stolen by animal rights activists with the

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help of the artist's friend, Casper Stephenson. Apparently, Stephenson's ten

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year old daughter begged him to make sure the piggies

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won't die. Child has more ethical clarity than an international artist.

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Maybe it's time to rethink your medium. Everesty was initially

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disappointed when he found out his friend helped with the heist.

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I mean, how dare someone prevent animal suffering when there

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was important art happening, but then he had an epiphany.

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At least this way the piglets would have a happy life. Wow,

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what a concept. Maybe he should name his next exhibition

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and now they're actually happy. The artist claims this was

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all to raise awareness about pig production in Denmark, where

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sos are bred to produce twenty piglets despite only having

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fourteen teats. That's like inviting twenty people to dinner but

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only cooking for fourteen, except with starvation.

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Instead of awkward small talk.

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Now, Everesty wants to revive the exhibition by stealing dead

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piglets from meat processing plants, because nothing says I'm serious

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about animal rights like grave robbing for pork. He also

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wants to auction three new piglets to whoever prompts them

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the happiest life. I'm no art critic, but maybe just

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donate to an animal welfare organization instead. The artist complained,

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I got a lot of hate messages from around the world.

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I think people don't get that my art is about

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animals rights. Yeah, that's definitely the problem. People just don't

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understand that the best way to advocate for animal rights

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is to check's notes, starve animals to death makes perfect sense. Well,

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this is some bleeping great news. Turns out, all those

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times your grandma told you to watch your language, you

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should have told her you were just practicing preventive medicine.

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A new study shows that swearing actually increases pain tolerance

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and physical strength. That's right, Saying a four letter word

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when you stub your toe isn't just an emotional release.

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It's scientifically proven to help with the pain. Richard Stevens,

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a psychology researcher at Keele University, calls swearing a drug free,

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calorie neutral, cost free means of self help. Other words,

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it's like meditation, but way more satisfying when someone cuts

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you off in traffic.

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In twenty oh nine, Stevens and his.

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Colleagues published the first study linking swearing with reduced pain sensitivity.

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The subjects were asked to stick their hands in ice

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water while repeating either a swear word or a non

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swear word. Those who cursed like sailors could keep their

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hands in the freezing water longer and reported less pain. Surprisingly,

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this effect isn't just limited to English speakers. A twenty

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seventeen study compared Native English speakers saying the f word

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versus cup and Japanese speakers saying their version of the

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S word versus kapu meaning cup. Both groups showed increased

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pain tolerance when swearing, proving that cursing is truly a

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universal language. Ollie Robertson, a psychology researcher at Oxford, explains

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that swearing has been linked to bolstered social bonds, improved memory,

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and even an alleviation of the social pain of exclusion

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or rejection. So the next time someone gives you the

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cold shoulder, apparently, dropping an F bomb might actually make

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you feel better emotionally too. Most recently, research has shown

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that swearing can increase physical strength. In a twenty eighteen study,

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participants who swore during an anaerobic power test on a

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bike showed improvement and strength. Stevens believes this might be

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because by swearing, we just get ourselves in a place

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where we're more disinhibited, allowing us to push harder. For

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those who want to harness the power of profanity, Nick Washmuth,

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a professor of physical therapy, suggests selecting a swear word

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that feels powerful when you'd naturally use if you stubbed

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your toe if nothing comes to mind. The F word

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is the most commonly self selected swear word by participants

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in these studies and is considered one of the most

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powerful swear words out there. He recommends swearing at a

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steady pace, once a second to once every three seconds

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at a normal speech volume. But if you're in a

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public place where shouting obscenities might get you some strange looks,

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Washmouth is currently studying whether internal swearing could work just

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as well. Next time you drop a hammer on your foot,

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remember you're not being rude. You're practicing evidence based pain management.

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And if anyone complains about your language, tell them you're

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just following doctor's orders. Here's a fun new health crisis.

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Apparently we've all got plastic in our brains.

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Now.

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Great, as if social media hadn't already turned my brain

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to mush. Now it's literally made of plastic. According to

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a new report released in the journal Brain Medicine, microplastics

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are absolutely everywhere in your liver, your blood, and even

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enjoying a nice vacation in your frontal lobe. Sherry Mason,

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a fresh water and plastic pollution researcher, calls this a

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public health crisis that people are just generally not aware

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of Meanwhile, Nicholas Fabiano, the article's lead author, helpful points

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out that having tiny bits of plastics scattered throughout your

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vital organs is certainly not beneficial you think, so, how

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do we avoid becoming walking tougherware containers. Here are five

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ways to reduce your plastic intake. First, stop drinking bottled water.

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Researchers found that an average leader of bottled water contains

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about two hundred and forty thousand plastic particles. That's right,

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When you drink bottled water, you're basically drinking a liquid

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lego set. Second, avoid plastic food containers. Buy peanut butter

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and glass jars instead. And don't even get me started

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on canned foods, which are often lined with plastics that

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shed microplastics faster than my cat sheds fur on a

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black sweater. Third, don't microwave food in plastic containers.

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One study found that microwaving food.

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In plastic releases more than four million microplastic particles in

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just three minutes. That's not a meal, that's a chemistry experiment. Fourth,

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avoid highly processed foods. Apparently, bread and shrimp has the

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highest concentration of plastic particles, and chicken nuggets contain thirty

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times more microplastics than chicken breasts, So those aren't actually

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chicken nuggets. They're plastic nuggets with a hint of chicken flavoring. Finally,

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ditch the plastic tea bags. A single nylon tea bag

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can release eleven billion microplastic particles. That's not a cup

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of tea. That's a cup of plastic soup with a

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tea garnish. Remember when our biggest health concern was just

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good old fashioned cholesterol. Now we're worried about becoming human

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recycling bins. Next time someone calls you plastic, just say yes,

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about two hundred and forty thousand particles worth, Thank you

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very much.

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Hunting invasive species.

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Anyone, the federal government wants you to turn your shotgun

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into a spatula by hunting and eating the five most

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environmentally destructive creatures in America. At the top of the

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list the nutria. Picture a beaver that skipped it, stylist appointment,

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and you've got a nutria. These South American swamp rats

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were brought to America in the nineteen thirties by fur

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traders with dreams of nutria skin coats dancing.

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In their heads.

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When that fashion trend predictably crashed and burned, they did

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what any responsible business owners would do. Release them into

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the wild. What could possibly go wrong? Fast forward ninety years,

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and these rodents are destroying marshlands faster than a toddler

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with fingerpaints in.

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A white living room.

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They eat twenty five percent of their body weight daily.

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If humans did that, we'd each consume roughly forty pounds

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of food every day. I'd need to replace my refrigerator hourly.

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The Fish and Wildlife Service described the damage as making

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wetlands look like something out of.

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A disaster movie.

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I'm picturing the Day After Tomorrow, but with buck toothed

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rodents instead of climate change.

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But here's where it gets weird.

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They want us to eat them. The government describes nutria

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meat as lean and mild, with a flavor similar to

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rabbit or even the.

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Dark meat of a turkey.

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Nothing makes me hungrier than hearing a government agency compare

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something to dark meat. I'm sure their marketing department worked

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overtime on that one. There's even a cookbook from nineteen

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sixty three with dishes like chicken fried Nutria and macaroni

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nutria casserole. Louisiana, being Louisiana, went straight for smoked nutria

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and andouie sausage gumboat, because if you're going to eat

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a swamp rat, you might as well jazzed up New

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Orleans style. The government's list of edible invaders also includes

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northern snakeheadfish, green iguanas, several types of carp and feral hogs.

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It's like they're assembling the world's most disturbing buffet. The

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good news in Louisiana. These hungry rodents used to destroy

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one hundred thousand acres of wetland annually, but that's down

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to just five thousand, five hundred acres last year, so

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their extermination.

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Program is actually working.

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I'm not saying I'll be first in line for a

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nutrient burger, but I appreciate the creativity. Don't just complain

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about invasive species. Put them on the menu is apparently

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the government's new conservation strategy. Talk about putting your money

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where your mouth is, or in this case, putting a

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giant rodent where your mouth is. So remember next time

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you're hunting, if you see something that looks like a

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beaver had a baby with a rat. Shoot it, grill it,

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and tell everyone it tastes like a turkey. You're not

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just having dinner, You're saving America's wetlands, one disturbing entree

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at a time. Portions of today's program were made with

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the help of AI swamp rats and three little pigs.