Tbh, if my area had flies the size of sparrows, I’d be rather salty about it as well. Just imagine the noise… Ugh

The absence of sparrows, which traditionally kept locust populations in check, allowed swarms to ravage fields of grain and rice. The resulting agricultural failures, compounded by misguided policies of the Great Leap Forward, triggered a severe famine from 1958 to 1962. The death toll from starvation during this period reached a staggering 20 to 30 million people, underscoring the high human cost of the ecological mismanagement inherent in the “Four Pests” campaign.

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