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...completely automated hog, whose comfort is so catered to that he never moves a muscle except to belch, the reason why lean meat has all but vanished from bacon...
...frosty Indiana morning last week. Farmer Warren North, 45, rolled out of bed to get at his chores. After a hearty breakfast (orange juice, cereal, bacon and eggs), he left his twelve-room white frame and fieldstone house, walked briskly to the barnyard. In the early morning mist the low-lying white barn, surmounted by five giant blue-black silos, rode the frozen prairie like an ocean liner. Like a rumble of surf came the hungry bellowing of 400 white-faced Herefords and the grunting of 500 Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs...
...private rooms, to avoid being stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs never know weight-killing struggle...
...book becomes almost worth reading when, in one incredible passage that may well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light...
...organized the Opera Society in 1956. In a city that has long been known as a cultural backwater, the company was financed by contributions averaging $100, plus some sizable gifts from Washington society's "cave dwellers," including Mrs. Herbert May (formerly Mrs. Merriweather Post), Mrs. Robert Low Bacon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss...