Word: cowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They gathered last week outside supermarkets and shopping malls in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington and other U.S. cities, carrying signs and posing for TV cameras in goofy-looking cow suits. A young woman in Manhattan dumped a bucket of milk onto a frozen sidewalk. A man in Madison, Wisconsin, dragged white plastic cartons stamped with the skull and crossbones up the steps of the state capitol. Two dozen demonstrators marched in front of Atlanta's Toco Hills shopping center with a banner that read stop the "frankenfood" -- save the cows...
Caught in the middle are 140,000 U.S. dairy farmers who, having run up a milk surplus for years, are split over whether extra production is good. Some farmers are angry at having "technology shoved down our throats," says Jim McGhee, who runs an 18-cow dairy farm near Hollandale, Wisconsin. But many say that if BGH will help their bottom lines, they're willing to try it. The big question is whether consumers can approach the supermarkets with an equally receptive attitude...
...ROBO-COW CONSPIRACY...
...capita in the world," says Sanchez, and he claims that nearly 1% of the population is in jail. In the past few months, he says, 5,000 to 10,000 citizens have been imprisoned for illegal economic activities, sentenced to eight to 10 years for slaughtering a state-owned cow or stealing state property. He warns, "The government is pushing the country to the edge of violence...
Thousands of "cute" messages are forwarded all around the network every day, and each message lists the addresses of all of the people who have previously received it. Debbie, it seems, got my address when I sent one of my friends a history of computer cow images three weeks ago. Little did I know back then that my life as an e-mail social butterfly had begun...