Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lance referred to his Washington ordeal only by indirection and with some country Georgia jokes about plucked chickens and soon-to-be-slaughtered lambs. He told of the elderly woman who picked out a chicken at a meat market, peered under its wings, poked its breast and tested its thighs, then rejected it. Complained the butcher: "Lady, I don't think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural...
...sets would be closed, he explained, but there would be cameramen, technicians. "You're going to lie there like a piece of meat while they adjust the lighting. We can't use a double; the skin colors would be wrong. And some camera guy is going to run a tape measure down from his lens to your ass?zip!?to get his focus right. Can you work with that...
...serving Amin for six years as principal private secretary and later as Minister of Health. Written with the help of a former Reuters correspondent, John Man, A State of Blood is full of sensational detail. Kyemba reports for instance that Amin has experimented with cannibalism. "I have eaten human meat," he once remarked. "It is very salty, even more salty than leopard meat." Although Amin's bizarre behavior has been attributed to the prolonged effects of syphilitic infection, Kyemba is not so sure: "He knows well enough how to stage-manage his rages." In 1973 a French television crew...
...more than two pounds of grain are grown daily for every person on earth, and two pounds contain more food energy than the 3000 calories per person that most Americans consume now. This estimate does not include the simultaneous production of other staples--beans, cassava, potatoes, range-fed meat, fruits and vegetables. "Thus," they write, "on a global scale the idea that there is not enough food to go around just does not hold...
...crop of green beans, because the Senegalese peasants are not familiar with the vegetable and don't eat it--and because they could not afford Bud Antle's prices. Despite huge increases in the per capita production of beef in Central America in recent years, per capita consumption of meat has declined as more and more resources are drawn into production for export...