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Coming up next hour, we're gonna get with Mikenna Smith, and she's playing with bugs, I'm sure.

She's an entomologist with Teton County Weed & Pest.

She, uh, her area of expertise is mosquitoes, but she's also pivoted recently to do a lot of, uh, tick research, which is very important.

Cowboy Meyer, uh, Cowboy Kevin Meyer will be here, and Shannon, Shannon Brennan running for HD 23.

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Janelle, thank you very much for spending a little time with us and talking about the great things that people can do, but also when they need help.

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On today's episode, we consider one of humanity's greatest mistakes.

the Four Pests Campaign of the Great Leap Forward of Communist China, and specifically at the killing of billions of sparrows, which contributed to one of the largest and most devastating famines in human history.

Without further ado, let me introduce The History Guy.

There have been some very odd wars fought in human history for odd reasons and one of the strangest of those wars demonstrates the fact that sometimes things done with the best of intentions can have horrible results.

Disease was rampant with tuberculosis, plague, cholera, polio, malaria, smallpox, and hookworm endemic throughout much of the country and recurrent cholera epidemics that in some years killed tens of thousands.

Thus, when in 1958 Chairman Mao and the Communist Party of China initiated a plan called the Great Leap Forward, intended to rapidly transform China from an agrarian society to an industrial society, a great patriotic health campaign was included among the many reforms of the period.

The campaign was called the Four Pests Campaign and targeted rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows.

The program amounted to a carte blanche issued to the people to fulfill their duty to the nation through the massacre of the small, bothersome animals and insects.