Word: meat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until November of this year to come up with proposals for what the new labels should say. In addition, public pressure is mounting -- from such groups as the American Association of Retired Persons, the American Heart Association and the National Parent-Teacher Association -- to revamp the labels on meat and poultry, which are regulated separately by the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Americans have a long history of prodding government to act when public health and dietary issues are at stake. Popular outrage over the Chicago meat- packing scandals, revealed in Upton Sinclair's 1906 classic, The Jungle, gave rise to both a meat-inspection law and the predecessor to the modern FDA. The discovery, during World War II, that many draftees suffered from beriberi and other vitamin B deficiencies led to the government's creation of the Recommended Dietary Allowances for vitamins and minerals...
...then we lost food. First they took the red meat, the white bread and the Chocolate Decadence desserts. Then they came for the pink meat, the cheese, the butter, the tropical oils and, of course, the whipped cream. Finally, they wanted all protein abolished, all fat and uncomplex carbohydrates, leaving us with broccoli and Metamucil. Everything else, as we know, is transformed by our treacherous bodies into insidious, slow-acting toxins...
...articles deeply critical of the violence they manage to summarize) about diabolical new uses for human flesh. It's been, let's face it, a big disappointment. May as well feed it to the rats or to any cannibalistically inclined killer still reckless enough to indulge in red meat...
...soft and wayward flesh. Maybe violent imagery feeds the obsessions of real-life sickos. Or maybe, as some argue, it drains their sickness off into harmless fantasy. But surely it cheapens our sense of ourselves to think that others, even fictional others, could see us as little more than meat. And it's hard to believe all this carnage doesn't dull our response to the global wastage of human flesh in famine, flood...