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Originally Posted by Luffy
Under Chairman Mao, every Chinese family was obliged to kill a sparrow a week to stop them eating all the rice. The project was ineffective because sparrows don’t eat rice.
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According to
Wikipedia, it was even worse: The sparrows did indeed eat some rice, but they ate even more rice-eating insects, like locusts. So killing off the sparrows led to locust plagues -> no rice -> starvation.
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