Word: meats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million residents will receive a subsidy of 7.5 yuan a month (l5% of per capita income) for a year to help pay the higher prices, but that will only partly cover them. Some kinds of fish will now be 200% more expensive. Pork, the country's most popular meat, will cost 35% more. The prices of staples like rice and flour, however, will remain unaffected...
...middle-aged Dutchmen for 20 years and found that the incidence of fatal heart disease was more than 50% lower among men who regularly ate fish than those who ate no fish at all--despite the fact that the fish eaters consumed somewhat more cholesterol and more meat than non-fish eaters...
...Smith's second album (or second point five Hatful of Hollow contained only one side's worth of original material) shows once more how quickly a band can succumb to it's own worst tendencies. Their latest, Meat is Murder, rails against all of Morrissey's petoutrages; nasty schoolmasters, abusive parents, and carniverousness. The title track epitomizes everything wrong with this record album. With the mooing of cows in the background (electronically processed to sound like singing whales) Morissey says...
...episode of the classic Walt Disney film Fantasia, the dinosaurs take over the earth to the impassioned strains of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. An adorable clutch of baby tricerotopses hatches from eggs; sloe-eyed brontosauruses wade in marshes; a bony-backed stegosaurus struggles for its life against the meat-eating Tyrannosaurus rex. But as the years flash by, the world mysteriously grows hotter and more violent: swamps evaporate, earthquakes trigger giant tidal waves, and the princely reptiles crawl across an encroaching desert to meet their certain doom...
What was that gray sliced stuff slapped at them at the first station? The serving biddies claimed it was meat. It looked like innersoles to most and tasted much that way to all. It was no consolation that they could eat all they wanted. For who would ever want more of this unchewable enigma...