March 21, 2013

Israel's Unique Solution to Locust Plague

Cordelia Hebblethwaite, BBC

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Israel is in the grip of a locust invasion. Farmers are seeing their crops gobbled up in minutes - and some people are taking a novel approach to pest control. Eating them.

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