Monday, 16 March 2015

Don't Give Them Their Daily Bread?


It may disappoint many children (and parents who hate to waste bread) but conservationists have suggested that feeding bread to ducks is a bad idea (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/16/dont-feed-the-ducks-bread-say-conservationists). They maintain that uneaten bread can encourage algal blooms and attract the odd rat (rats will take eggs and young chicks of ground nesting birds). The take to pool message seems to be "let them eat peas".

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