Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legged, up-to-3-in.-wide crustaceans are being marketed nationwide by The Great American Crab Co., Inc. of Orlando, Fla., which boasts it will sell some 750,000 in its first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that...
...Mexico, where the technique is still used, poor campesinos in the steamy coastal state of Oaxaca call the exterminators los matagatos (the cat killers). Reason: their cats lick the DDT residue off their paws and die of a disease of the nervous system. So rats multiply, eat more human food and leave the peasants hungrier than ever...
...what he eats," says an old German proverb that has proved to be prophetic. Until about 1900, man was what he could get to eat, whether in Boston or Bangkok, and his food was nearly all prepared at or near his eating place. Then came the explosion of the food-processing industry, and humanity came to be distinguished not only by what it ate but by some new diseases related to foods. The most conspicuous dietary change in developed countries over the past 75 years has been an alpine increase in the consumption of hard fats, sugar and superrefined foods...
...third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides little caloric nourishment; its main value is in absorbing water so that the contents of the digestive tract are bulky, loose and easily excreted. Grandma knew this when she advised her family to eat more fruits and vegetables in order to avoid constipation. These are good foods indeed, said Kay, but the most useful water absorber and stool loosener is coarse wheat bran, which soaks up three to four times its own weight in water...
...further tinkering, he produced the AMIGO-an acronym for ants, mice and gophers. The football-size device emits electromagnetic waves that have no effect on people or domestic animals but upsets the small pests' neurological systems. They either flee or go into a trance-like state, refuse to eat and die. Brown has sold some 12,000 of his zappers, at prices from $350 to $1,000. Among his customers: the U.S. Marine base at Camp Pendleton, Calif., where two AMIGOS cleared a ten-acre parade field of gophers...