Word: meat
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Ever since that summer at nerd camp, my taste buds and stomach have been on a quest to re-experience a near-perfectly balanced meal of vegetable, meat and starch in one dish. Specifically, my mission has been to discover and then savor the Platonic form of shepherd's pieness...
...shepherd's pies at Mr. and Mrs. Bartley's would more aptly be called beef stew pies--filled with chunks of meat instead of ground beef. At Quincy Market, Kitchens of the Bay State serves gravy-less pies. And the "pie" I bought at a sandwich shop in Kennebunkport, Maine was all smooshed together with peasin a styrofoam cup. Alas...
...since he took on the biotechnology industry over the safety of genetic engineering has Rifkin been embroiled in a higher-profile controversy, or one with the potential for greater economic consequences. With so much at stake, it is hardly surprising that environmentalists and meat-industry advocates have locked horns over Rifkin's charges. Among the most notable areas of dispute...
...specter of beef contaminated with viruses, including a bovine immunodeficiency virus that he provocatively labels "COW AIDS," though there is no evidence that the virus can infect humans. Rifkin also charges that inspection of carcasses is shoddy, which the U.S. Department of Agriculture flatly denies. However, even the American Meat Institute allows that the inspection system, which still relies on visually examining and touching meat, hasn't changed much since 1906 and needs more up-to-date techniques to detect invisible contaminants like microbes. Ironically, the primary tools for improvement could well come from biotechnology, an industry that Rifkin loves...
Cutting down on beef consumption in protein-sated countries like the U.S. is a prudent prescription that would go a long way toward enhancing general health. Red meat is the primary source of saturated fat in the American diet, and too much dietary fat has been linked to the development of both heart disease and certain types of cancer. But trimming beef in the American diet, emphasizes Felicia Busch of the American Dietetic Association, "will not solve world hunger, and it isn't going to save our planet." The environmental cost of beef is just one aspect of the multiplying...