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New York City Moves to Stop Foraging in Parks


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#1 milbank

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Posted 30 July 2011 - 07:56 AM

Now parks officials want them to stop. New York’s public lands are not a communal pantry, they say.

The rising cost of food has led to an increase in foraging in city parks, according to New York officials.

“If people decide that they want to make their salads out of our plants, then we’re not going to have any chipmunks,”


. . . for chipmunk stew?


http://www.nytimes.c...n...tml?_r=1

Edited by milbank, 30 July 2011 - 07:57 AM.

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