Just in case...
...anyone's planning on having a wedding soon. actually, i just thought it was interesting cause it completely dispels what i thought was true:
Summary of eRumor:
The old tradition of throwing rice at a departing wedding couple should be
avoided because birds eat the rice, it expands in their stomachs, and they are
harmed by it. Some folks say the birds can even explode!The Truth:
The consensus of the multiple organizations we checked with is that this is
Fiction! It's an urban legend that some say got started, or at least propelled,
when Ann Landers gave advice in her column in the mid-sixties that the rice
would do bad things to birds.
The folks at Birder's magazine, Birdwatcher Digest, The Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, and the USA Rice Federation all agree: rice causes no harm to
birds. There are varieties of birds that routinely eat rice in the wild and
with no harm. As one observer put it, if rice caused birds to explode, there
would be bird parts all over Asia.
Most of the wedding planning organizations say that the main reason for not
using rice is because there is too much of a risk of people slipping on it and
falling.
So guys, have no worries that the poor pigeons (though I hate those rats with wings & my cousins frequently attempt to punt them as a sport in parks) are going to die and blow up because of such a blissful event as ur wedding. just so you know. :)
Summary of eRumor:
The old tradition of throwing rice at a departing wedding couple should be
avoided because birds eat the rice, it expands in their stomachs, and they are
harmed by it. Some folks say the birds can even explode!The Truth:
The consensus of the multiple organizations we checked with is that this is
Fiction! It's an urban legend that some say got started, or at least propelled,
when Ann Landers gave advice in her column in the mid-sixties that the rice
would do bad things to birds.
The folks at Birder's magazine, Birdwatcher Digest, The Cornell Lab of
Ornithology, and the USA Rice Federation all agree: rice causes no harm to
birds. There are varieties of birds that routinely eat rice in the wild and
with no harm. As one observer put it, if rice caused birds to explode, there
would be bird parts all over Asia.
Most of the wedding planning organizations say that the main reason for not
using rice is because there is too much of a risk of people slipping on it and
falling.
So guys, have no worries that the poor pigeons (though I hate those rats with wings & my cousins frequently attempt to punt them as a sport in parks) are going to die and blow up because of such a blissful event as ur wedding. just so you know. :)