Word: pigging
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...working on a song called “Pig,” which, ah, follows the life of a pig, from when it’s just a little piglet on the farm, playing with other animals, to a point where it’s grown up and married and has kids, but then it eventually [laughs], it gets slaughtered...
...trying. "Mario does things first, and then two, three years down the line you see it in Cleveland and Chicago," says Patrick Martins, a co-founder of Heritage Foods USA, which sells meat, fish and other goods to high-end restaurants around the U.S. "Mario starts playing with pig bellies and tripe and intestines and even the bladder, and then a lot of people have followed and placed orders [for the same items]. He has reawakened those, quote, low-end cuts...
...their fate as cheeseburgers. Organic farming? It has its virtues, but he discovers that our visions of contented cows and free-range chickens don't always match the realities. In a final lunge toward authenticity, he forages for mushrooms in a burned-over pine forest and shoots a wild pig, a primal confrontation that briefly reduces Pollan, an inexperienced hunter, to a state of near panic as he pulls the trigger while the pigs madly scatter. But in this clearheaded and sometimes heartbroken book, that would be the only time he gets seriously confused...
...tons of CO2 HSBC generated, it sent $4.43 to four projects that reduced greenhouse-gas emissions by the same amount. Among the projects: a wind farm that powers up to 45,000 homes in New Zealand and a project in Germany that reduces emissions of methane gas by converting pig and cattle manure into heat and electricity. An independent auditor will report this month on whether the bank can officially call itself carbon neutral...
Wesley Clark built a campaign for President as an expert in national security. But he recently discovered a hole in his personal security--his cell phone. A resourceful blogger, hoping to call attention to the black market in phone records, turned the general into his privacy-rights guinea pig in January. For $89.95, he purchased, no questions asked, the records of 100 cell-phone calls that Clark had made. (He revealed the ruse to Clark soon after.) "It's like someone taking your wallet or knowing who paid you money," Clark says. "It's no great discovery, but it just...