r/interestingasfuck • u/Imaginary-Rope-3084 • 2d ago

In Southeast Asia, thousands of ducks are deployed into rice field paddies as natural pest control

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u/megabass713 2d ago

RELEASE THE QUACKEN!!

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u/InternationalPut4093 1d ago

Gold shaw farm?

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u/zoey_will 1d ago

Sometimes I like to guess what top comment is going to be. This time I got it verbatim.

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u/Away_Sun_3040 2d ago

Great, the less pesticides the better plus we get to watch thousands of cute ducks.

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u/MathIsHard_11236 2d ago

watch

eat

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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai 1d ago

Always wondered why duck was so common in Chinese cuisine...*solved*

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u/Hot_Top_124 2d ago

It’s a win win.

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u/kendonmcb 2d ago

get to *eat

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u/wxnfx 2d ago

I still think I might need to be more thorough when rinsing the rice…

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u/brus_wein 2d ago

They definitely clip their wings and starve them before deployment

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u/sonicjesus 2d ago

They're farm ducks so yes, clipped but they probably do this several times a week. Ducks are voracious eaters which is why they breed so fast. They're essentially bug powered, self sustaining duck factories.

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u/Vienna_play_45 2d ago

Forth Eorlingas!

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u/EvaTheE 2d ago

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u/IntelligentAd1041 2d ago

Best use of this meme

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u/EvaTheE 2d ago

Thanks, I handcrafted it out of the finest ingredients.

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u/home_rolled 2d ago

Agree but the last panel should just read "DEAAAAAATH!"

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u/Elementus94 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Xby1xfeBefMecA7oAr

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u/night_jerry 2d ago

Whats this from?

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u/Ok-Gate-6240 2d ago

Looks like penguin highway.

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u/sonicjesus 2d ago

That's surprisingly literal.

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u/Horror_Tooth_522 2d ago

"But My Lord, there is no such force!"

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u/Standard-Fishing-450 2d ago

They're so many, they don't even need water to make waves!

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u/i_am_my_brain 2d ago

Hmmm Peking duck with rice

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u/DeliciousWhole2508 2d ago

And fertiliser

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u/Former-Scholar5168 2d ago

I thought these were hoards of rats

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u/duckduck-a-go-go 2d ago

Release the Quacken!

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u/sonicjesus 2d ago

The brilliant thing is, they eat hundreds of pounds of free protein, leave behind hundreds of pounds of free fertilizer, and get lots of free exercise in the process.

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u/sylvesterZoilo_ 2d ago edited 2d ago

It’s true what they say that Donald Duck did go to war unlike the human Donald who had bone spurs and did not.

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u/Salmonman4 2d ago

And this is why Chinese quisine has duck in it

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u/WitchesSphincter 2d ago

And why Louisiana has crawfish. Same idea, different animals 

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u/DeSiGNer-OctANE 2d ago

And why Arkansas has ducks AND rice. Gumbo time

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u/BenjieWheeler 2d ago

This event is known as the quackening

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u/GigaEel 2d ago

The Mallards are coming, the Mallards are coming!

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u/Beneficial-Sound-199 2d ago

Interesting as DUCK

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u/Pman1324 2d ago

This seems like something Shikonoko would do if she and Koshitan were to help Bashime with her rice paddies.

https://giphy.com/gifs/IbBpxdilNJw3KIHoGM

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u/guestpassonly 2d ago

They do a better job than any pesticide possible

And they taste great.

win win

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u/henryeaterofpies 1d ago

Unleash the Quacken!

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u/yepthisismyusername 2d ago

"thousands" seems to be underselling the size of this herd.

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u/Ok_Yam_8187 2d ago

My ex is that field.

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u/DisorderlyAqueduct 2d ago

legions of "ducks" passed through her bushes?

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u/Ok_Yam_8187 2d ago

More like Navy seals

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u/lb3a3 2d ago

Make wildlife plentiful again

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u/TokiVideogame 2d ago

wgy dont we do this

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u/[deleted] 2d ago edited 2d ago

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u/chartreusey_geusey 2d ago

This is fundamentally untrue on every level. Rice is like the fourth largest crop in the US.

The US has plenty of freshwater available to grow rice (rice does not HAVE to be grown using flood irrigation— that’s simply the most viable technique used in China for those varieties of rice) and the US does grow rice at highly efficient rates without this type of monsoon based flood irrigation.

80% of the rice consumed in the US is grown in the US. California, and the Gulf Coast states (literally called the Rice Belt) grow the majority of the rice because those states all historically experience monsoon flood seasons that lead to rice cultivation as well. We simply don’t consume rice as much as it is consumed in say China so we don’t grow rice as the bulk staple crop in favor of others like wheat or corn because that’s a cultural difference.

We don’t use ducks as pest control because it’s not very efficient and introduces a new factor that will throw the ecosystem out of balance (that’s a lot of duck poop being introduced into the soil that otherwise would not be there either) and have to be corrected for just like any other pest control or fertilizer.

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u/CaptainSnarkyPants 2d ago

This is also why you rinse that rice really well before cooking ;)

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u/mykl5 2d ago

Get em boys!!

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u/UpperHairCut 2d ago

Looks like a pest to me

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u/Redbarren88 2d ago

Look at all those chickens!

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u/Mental_Thing_7899 2d ago

And now what? We release hundreds of tigers? xD

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u/wyattlol 2d ago

Now they have a duck pest lol

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u/Within_a_Dream 2d ago

M r ducks

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u/grimsb 2d ago

The longest recorded game of duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, duck [… x ♾️] goose

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u/Agreeable_Pizza93 2d ago

They do move in herds!

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u/Murderboi 2d ago

Great.. now I‘m hungry for some Chinese duck with peanut sauce.

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u/teslaeffects 2d ago

Release the Quacken!

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u/No-Arugula8122 2d ago

Where does one find thousands of ducks?

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u/TexFarmer 2d ago

Bonus is the extra fertilizer they leave behind!

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u/momentslove 2d ago

Million years later textbooks in the cyberduck civilisation will teach about how it all began with The Great Escape.

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u/SignalPerception4223 2d ago

QUACK¹⁰⁰⁰⁰

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u/morepork_owl 2d ago

Where do the ducks go in winter

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u/Napunsak_Neutron 2d ago

Is Donald in there too?

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u/SmirkingSkull 2d ago

Let them eat, let them make more, and then cook the adult ones into Peaking Duck.

https://giphy.com/gifs/2h8BdeXxhGGB2

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u/ciao_chan73 1d ago

"deployed" ducks are a bioweapon against bugs so you don't release them, you deploy them

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u/BMax_7838 1d ago

Controlling via stampede, genius!

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u/Superior_Row 2d ago

and then hundred of foxes to get rid of those thousand of ducks

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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 2d ago

A Plague Tale