On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:03, Ray Saintonge <sainto...@telus.net> wrote: > On 08/29/11 11:47 AM, Milos Rancic wrote: >> Sparrows [1], but Serbian Wikipedia article "sparrow" leads to >> "passer" and I am bad in flora and fauna terminology. >> >> Eating sparrows is one of the commons issues during the first phase of >> the Great Leap Forward during Mao and was a product of centralized >> economy. >> >> The anecdote goes: Mao woke up one day and said "Sparrows are guilty >> for everything!" After that, it a country-wide hunt on sparrows have >> been made. Then, fields without sparrows became easy target for >> grasshoppers and the next couple of years were known as the time of >> great famine in China [2]. Eventually, even during Mao's rule, China >> abandoned centralized economy. >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passer >> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine >> >> > Not that I want to carry this diversion too far, but sparrows are > normally seed eaters.
Actually, found article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l