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"SteveB" wrote:

Rice? The stuff commonly available to birds in any state where rice is
readily available? That rice? It is a common food that has no effect on
birds. If so, the EPA in its infinite wisdom would have shut down all rice
farming in the world.

Rice? What have you been smoking? Do yo have any left?


I think this is an outgrowth of the urban legend or whatever that
lead to weddings using soap bubbles instead of rice throwing because it
allegedly expanded in the birds causing them to explode. I know that
after our wedding we had a bunch of problems with starlings blowing up..
but that was probably more related to my sociopathic best man and his
affinity for M-80s (grin). The Snopes stuff on this is at
http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/birdrice.asp

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