• EtherWhack
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    Though, you wouldn’t want to eat one you “recovered” from an urban area that’s had an unknown diet, due to all the toxins it may have accumulated in its body.

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      Incidentally that’s also why you shouldn’t eat me.

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        The alien invaders killing and consuming millions of humans in movies should be shown 5 years later or something. Trying to recover from all the shit they ate.

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          I am from a very rural area but I’m currently in one of the largest metro areas in the US.

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      I’ve eaten pigeons plenty times in my childhood. That my grandma “recovered”. But to be fair back then my neighbourhood was suburban-ish.

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      Yeah, they could have microplastics in their testicles.

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        Or even their crop (see below). Pigeons are known to ingest what they think are stones which stay in their crop and act as a grit which will grind down whatever is eaten.

        Edit: lemmy can’t handle hyperlinks with parentheses

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_(anatomy)