Word: luna
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First, the basic facts about human fat are at odds with the story. Fat does not last very long outside the body and would be of little use once stored in dirty, returnable bottles of Inca Kola, Peru's electric yellow, bubble gum-flavored soda. Says Dr. Roni Luna, a plastic surgeon in Lima: "Human fat has no value. It can be removed from one part of a person's body and injected into another part of the same person, but that's it. Anyone who has taken a rudimentary class in human biology can tell you that decomposition would...
...Luna scoffed at the police's description of the gang beheading its victims, hanging the corpses upside down and coaxing out the fat with votive candles similar to those lit in Catholic churches to ask saints for favors. The police investigation included an artist's depiction of this fat-harvesting process - a scientific impossibility...
...people are the only vegans or vegetarians in their family and can’t eat a lot of Thanksgiving food, so it’s nice to have a space where all the food is vegetarian, and you can eat anything,” Luna said. “Also, a lot of turkeys are killed during Thanksgiving...
Over thirty people came to the event, which is slightly higher than average for them, according to Anello and Luna...
...mission isn’t to convert other people,” Luna said. “My mission is to show that being vegetarian is possible and delicious...