Word: hogging
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...recent years livestock waste has been implicated in massive fish kills and outbreaks of such diseases as pfiesteria, which causes memory loss, confusion and acute skin burning in people exposed to contaminated water. In the U.S., livestock now produce 130 times as much waste as people do. Just one hog farm in Utah, for example, produces more sewage than the city of Los Angeles. These megafarms are proliferating, and in populous areas their waste is tainting drinking water. In more pristine regions, from Indonesia to the Amazon, tropical rain forest is being burned down to make room for more...
...Revolution parallels and Orwell's timeless warnings against slippery language and manipulation; in a clever if heavy-handed addition, pigs salvage a TV set from the farmhouse to keep the animals docile. And the filmmakers use ingenious images to dramatize how image control is essential to tyrants. When the hog Napoleon (voiced by Patrick Stewart) becomes absolute dictator, his apotheosis is celebrated by a martial chorus of foot-stomping ducks in a perfect and hilarious imitation of a Stalinist propaganda musical...
...LEAST HE WON'T HOG...
...attend "Groundwater University," a four-day field trip devoted to Seacrest's favorite subject. Looking beyond Nebraska, the foundation has since 1994 named hundreds of North American communities as "Groundwater Guardians" and honored their leaders. A North Carolina town, for example, was cited for fighting groundwater pollution from hog farms. "When I started in my kitchen," Seacrest says, "I had no idea it would lead to all this." Now she won't stop until we all share her excitement about guarding the precious water beneath our feet...
...Incredible Record Keeper: John M. Shimkus (R., Ill.), who reported 15 pages of gifts, including a plastic letter opener from the Pontiac, Ill., Tourism Office; 21 calendars; a bumper sticker from an "outraged, anonymous citizen"; a hog sausage from the Eldred Baptist Church; and 12 jars of horseradish from Keller Farms in Illinois...