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		Rick Hurst wrote:

> On 9/29/06, Christian Wach <needle at haystack.co.uk> wrote:
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>> FTA: "no one who considers what's in a meat hot dog could genuinely
>> express any revulsion at eating a clean cloned meat product."
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>> ROFL!
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>> THe restaurant scene in Gilliam's "Brazil"; the animal in H2G2 that
>> comes to the table to ask the diners which part of it they want to eat;
>> the mystery meat in Alasdair Grey's "Lanark" - dammit, why is it that
>> people fail to see the irony in SF's dystopian visions and instead seem
>> to think of them as realistic business opportunities?
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>> *sigh*
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> i'm not sure where I stand on all this, being a long-term veggie who
> originally stopped eating meat as a protest against factory farming, and
> only gets meat cravings when I pass the worst hot dog street vendors.
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> However, when I put my brown food waste bin outside this moring after
> missing it two weeks in a row, I think there was some kind of mutant meat
> growing in there ;-)
- What is it? What have you found?
- Matter.
- Matter? Where's it coming from?
- Don't look. Don't look. I'm dealing with it!
- I think we've been in here too long. I feel unusual. I think we should go outside.