Word: roam
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...bucolic Sussex countryside south of London, there's a farm where pheasants and peacocks roam wild. The yard is dotted with cows and chickens, horses and sheep, even reindeer. The owner designed the circular house himself. He built the chicken coops too. His wife is noted for her meatless lasagna and vegetarian burgers. They seem a nice couple, married 21 years, with four well-mannered kids...
WHAT KIND OF PLANET WILL OUR CHILDREN INHERIT? WILL they have room to roam, air to breathe and food to eat? Will they ever see an eagle flying free or enjoy the solitude of a pristine mountain lake...
According to Rifkin, civilization began a long slide downhill when 18th century British gentry acquired a taste for fat-marbled beef and proceeded to spread that proclivity, like a plague, throughout the Western world. Rifkin's real argument, of course, is not with the 1.3 billion bovines that roam the planet but with modern methods of mass-producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated...
Meanwhile, the Vigilante groups roam the streets and fight over who will protect the townsfolk from the strangler (who sometimes slits victims throats from ear to ear but "mostly strangles...
...person or cross a road," says Ulvang. He's not being figurative. Every September, Ulvang and his two brothers set off from home and walk for a solid 14 hours in one direction or another. At dusk they pitch a base camp, and for the next week they roam the wilderness hunting ptarmigans...