Word: horsemeat
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...state, in effect, that the networks, with a surplus of eager sponsors to accommodate, are selling horsemeat to the public in the guise of steak. How true. Most of the material that nowadays insults the intelligence and is billed as topflight entertainment is a combination of ham and sow's ear, with neither guise, nor, worse, apology. The blame for this does not belong to the consuming public, whose sense of taste and discernment, once fairly encouraging, has been hammered into near oblivion by several years of Gleasons, Godfreys and giveaways. It belongs to the producer networks, who, like their...
...TUESDAY By the next morning the surviving Taliban troops were beginning to flag; Rozi estimated that there were only about 50 survivors from the original 600 or so in the fort and that they had no water or ammunition left. Their only food was horsemeat from Dostum's cavalry. A fighter who had escaped during the night was caught by local residents and hanged from a tree. Alliance forces were so confident of victory that at one frontline position, three shared a powerful joint of hashish. Others tucked into peanut butter and jelly from the American food drops...
...Fortunately, there are other choices-including red meats that cook and taste much like beef. Horsemeat, long prized in France, has been undergoing a boom there, with sales up 59% in December. Bison, only half as fat as chicken and with 30% more protein than beef, is also winning new European fans. More unusual offerings are starting to make their way into some markets and restaurants. Among them: ostrich, emu and kangaroo, all of which are lean and tender red meats. But, like bison, they are much more expensive than beef. Beef aficionados also claim the big birds tend...
...their decision to cut out meat came gradually, over a period of months or even years. Lauren Butts, a high school junior from Medford, Ore., recalls the exact moment of her conversion. At age 13, while traveling in France with her family, Butts, a horse owner, accidentally ordered horsemeat from a restaurant menu. Though not versed in the differences between cheval and boeuf, she did manage to "figure it out in time" to avoid eating the burger. But something clicked. "It made sense then," she says. "There was no way I was going to eat the relatives of my horses...
...Aside from the horsemeat question, there are more, uh, meaty issues on the table in California, of course. The original Meathead himself, Rob Reiner, is fronting for a California proposition that would tack a 50 cent-per-pack increase onto the price of cigarettes. Smoke of another kind -- medical marijuana -- gets a look in five states and the District of Columbia (no, Marion Barry is not behind this), while abortion-limiting proposals come before the voters in two more states. In Hawaii, voters are being asked to decide the fate of same-sex marriages. Our favorite resolution? In four states...