Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze, and watching football -- "whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time...
...cuts are "a meat axe, instead of pruning operation," Hiatt said
...hybrid meat will not soon replace filet mignon at finer restaurants, but compared with regular beef, it is more tender, contains significantly more protein and less fat. It tastes much like conventional beef but is slightly richer. Best of all, Basolo figures that it will eventually be priced 25% to 40% cheaper than the real thing...
...grain along with $24 million in other aid from the U.S., plus a total of $50 million from the U.N., Russia, China, and the Common Market countries. But matters are often so desperate that grain for cattle is eaten by people, while critical breeding stock is slaughtered for meat. Existing livestock-mostly sheep, goats and camels -have chewed up all the food cover in sight, and the ecological balance has been so savaged that experts say recovery of the land's food-generating potential may be as much as 30 years away...
...Labor Party meeting that his wife Mary was "almost in tears" as she watched "a little old lady moving from one part of a shop to the other, pricing all the things she wanted." The woman finally walked out "clutching a pathetic little plastic package of two slices of meat loaf...