MY apologies to readers who sent a video of a rat walking down the steps of a New York subway station. Readers sent this disturbing clip of a rodent with a slice of pizza in its mouth to advance ongoing studies of the Pizza Industrial Complex at this site. However, due to my husband’s extreme sensitivity to all images of rodents, I cannot post it.

I will say one thing.

If you didn’t know that rats all over America nightly feast on the styrofoam crusts and congealed faux cheese of leftover pizza slices, you are clueless. My family once saw a fox in the mountains walking down a picturesque highway, seemingly miles from the nearest pizza outlet, and it had a whole slice of pizza in its mouth. The pervasiveness of the Product has probably interfered with the predatory development of hundreds of species. Multiply the opportunities of the country fox by millions to get a sense of the urban rat’s diet. Pepperoni. Hot dog stuffed crust. Pineapple and ham. He’s had it all. Daily. The rat population would be decimated if Domino’s and Papa Johns closed.

It’s not shocking that rats eat industrial-grade pizza. It’s shocking that human beings do.

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