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...VERMIN. THE WORD reminds most people of cockroaches scuttling across kitchen floors and rats skulking in dark basement corners. But to Jeremy Rifkin, the environmental movement's most prominent polemicist, vermin are big, brown-eyed ungulates that graze the rolling countryside, chew their cud and moo. In his controversial new book, Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture, Rifkin manages to blame the world's burgeoning population of bovines for a staggering spectrum of ecological ills. In the U.S., he charges, runoff from mammoth feedlots is despoiling streams and underground aquifers. In sub- Saharan Africa, cattle...
...chose animal figures because of "the imageof a cat playing with mice," and because of Naziimagery depicting Jews as vermin, he said...
When questioned about why the cockroach and the men were running for office, one of the gurus, going by the name Vermin Supreme, replied, "It's obvious." However, Supreme mumbled more specific reasons too quickly to be understood by listeners...
...demand that people call me Zeus. Yes, that's right. I came to Harvard thinking that I would grow up to become some sort of biologist, and instead, I have emerged as chief deity of the Greek pantheon, all because of my twisted desire to wreak vengeance on the vermin that feast on me, my friends and my food (in the case of the mice...
...spent part of his captivity with McCarthy, described life with Islamic Jihad: "Tiny, tiny cells, constant blindfolds, prolonged days in the dark, sometimes weeks without light." The guards, he said, "just could not control the urge to beat very badly." When he and McCarthy were moved from one vermin-infested flat to another, they were covered with tape and stuffed under the floorboards of a truck...