There’s a front page story in today’s WSJ on rice farming in the Philippines and how the tripling of rice prices is encouraging more rice farming. The article focuses on one area of the Philippines where the high price of rice is finally making it cost effective for the villagers to battle gigantic earth worms that have devastated the rice paddies in the past. The villagers have tried many way to deal with the worms, but it seems the only way to control them is costly manual labor to shore up the paddies. The WSJ, however, quotes unnamed scientists who have their own solution to the problem:

Scientists from Manila have urged the Ifugao to try eating the worms to control their population. No way, the Ifugao said. That would be taboo.

Hopefully these same scientists find that eating worms stops global warming and then Al Gore can finally put his mouth where his mouth is.