801: Must Be Rats on the Brain
This American Life
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The Big Bag Theory
The mayor of New York and his new rats are have declared this renewed war on rats. One thing about the entire project that seems kind of absurd is that one big reason that there are so many rats in New York City is just obvious. It's not complicated at all. That's right. It's racism. No, it's plastic bags. And if you've ever visited the city for more than a day, you've seen these during the sidewalk at night,. Huge stacks of them just stretching down the block. About eight million pounds of food waste every day. That's one pound for every man, woman, child, and non-binary person in the five burrows.
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