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Title: The Scavengers Guide to Haute Cuisine
Review: Steven Rinella, big game hunter of sparrows and squirrels, doesn't know the first thing about the value of wildlife to human well being. Wild birds eat insects, including mosquitoes. Squirrels bury acorns and thus spread oak trees across the landscape, providing food for more wildlife. During the reign of Chairman Mao, the Chinese tried to eradicate small birds, believing they were pests. Instead, they discovered that they were critically important predators of crop pests. If we continue to disregard the value of wildlife, as Rinella does out of ignorance, we do so at our peril.He is the real backyard pest and should be ignored, both for his advocacy of destroying wildlife and his claims to haute cuisine.Eric Chivian M.D.DirectorCenter for Health and the Global EnvironmentHarvard Medical School
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