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...best efforts, we are still getting older. The fabulous anti-aging vitamin cathline-b, discovered in burdock and the fiddlehead fern, was discovered too late for us; bales of burdock wouldn't make us a minute younger. In the pasture, where our burdock grows, Holsteins recline, chewing their cud. Cud is food previously eaten, then regurgitated into the mouth for further chewing. This is how a cow's digestive system works, how we get milk. A Holstein lies in the pasture, eating vomit, thinking about her career...
Though platonic themes occasionally move us, the sexual themes consistently engender the funniest jokes. Like Crowe's other films, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, Singles is a film whose lewd lines innumerable adolescents will memorize and chew as cud. One of the more long-lasting laughs comes after Steve, in a childhood flashback, confuses spam with sperm while discussing procreation with the boys...
VERMIN. THE WORD reminds most people of cockroaches scuttling across kitchen floors and rats skulking in dark basement corners. But to Jeremy Rifkin, the environmental movement's most prominent polemicist, vermin are big, brown-eyed ungulates that graze the rolling countryside, chew their cud and moo. In his controversial new book, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, Rifkin manages to blame the world's burgeoning population of bovines for a staggering spectrum of ecological ills. In the U.S., he charges, runoff from mammoth feedlots is despoiling streams and underground aquifers. In sub- Saharan Africa, cattle...
...Wild Kingdom. Several illustrations include furry/feathered voyeurs: seagulls. (With open beaks.) Horses, frequently white. Two white wolves. A polar bear. Even cows. But they don't watch the lovers. They chew their cud...
...government is paying $210,000 to find out whether burping cows contribute to global warming. Researchers will strap monitors near the cud-chewing creatures' mouths to measure how much methane they emit. Flatulence is considered a comparatively minor source...