Kicker - Goats gobble greens

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, for some people the Fourth of July is all about stuffing your face—Joey Chestnut, reigning champ of chomp will compete to retain his title of fastest hot dog eater. Later today he’ll do his thing at Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog-Eating Contest on Coney Island.

But there’s another eating event making headlines this holiday in New York. Nearly 20 nibblers went to work chowing down on two acres of greens.

HERROLD: They love this stuff. They eat poison ivy, they eat the porcelain berry, they eat the multiflora rose and that's what we're trying to get rid of.

John Herrold is chief executive of the Riverside Park Conservancy. Last week, the NYC park district released more than a dozen goats into a fenced off area to consume invasive weeds that have been marring the landscape.

One mother and her children stood nearby watching the goats do what goats do.

HERROLD: It’s nice to see them nibbling the weeds and taking care of the park. They get what they need and the park gets what they need and everyone can come and enjoy them.

Concerning Joey Chestnut, though. We still don’t know whether he’ll take his 15th hotdog eating title today, but these four legged herbivores might beat him out for the title, “greatest of all time.” Because you know the acronym for that, right? G-O-A-T.

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