Neither, kudzu is a fast growing vine that has various nutritional and medicinal uses (it even helps with hangovers – I kid you not. Look it up!) the US Natural Resources Conservation Service encouraged southern farmers to use from 1935 -1950 for control of ground erosion. The problem is that this Japanese import grows completely out of control in the south-eastern US due to the friendly climate there – friendly to kudzu that is, less friendly if you’re not church-going. If you’ve been anywhere in the south-east, you’ve seen it climbing trees, poles, bushes, and just about anything that sits still for more than a day.
Now kudzu is creeping into Indiana, and they don’t like it one bit. Not only because they are afraid it might smother Dan Quayle, but because they are a proud midwestern, rust-belt state that is not going to let another Asian import take over American jobs. They have launched a campaign to eradicate it, because kudzu can carry a fungus that is a threat to an important local, all-American, red-blooded, Indiana-grown crop. The soybean.
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