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From: ccc@bu-cs.UUCP (Cameron Carson)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Live trout in grocery stores
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 11:57:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 11:57:18 1986
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>I agree with you!  I can't stand to go into a grocery
>story and see those poor LOBSTERS (who also have small brains)
>walking around waiting to be boiled alive.  At least when
>you see meat PARTS, it's easier to call it food. I suspect
>we'd feel differently about hamburger if we saw the COW
>waiting around to be killed.

This was the scenario of one of the early "Bloopers and Practical
Jokes" segments.  Someone went down to the butcher shop with
one of the girls from "Facts of Life" and found a cow tethered
inside the shop.  After they ordered the roast or steaks or
whatever, the butcher's assistant led the cow into the back
room, presumably to slaughter, cut, wrap, etc.

It definitely added a new perspective.

-- 
Cameron C. Carson
Distributed Systems Group
Boston University ACC

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