[UA] YUMMY FUD

[David M Jacobs]

At 11:33 PM 21/04/02 -0700, Royal Minister of Stuff wrote:

>Hitler's vegetarianism is also briefly discussed as
>well as the inhumanity of goose fat.

Actually, eyewitness testimony from the cook at the Obersalzberg (sp?) 
shows that Hitler wasn't a vegetarian.  OTOH, Himmler was in later years, 
and the similarity in names (and Himmler's lesser infamy) have led to the 
confusion.

>It mentions that
>the French government recently measured the endorphin
>levels of force-fed ducks to prove they love the
>process.

I can think of worse job descriptions.  Good ol' pate fois gras -- I'd give 
it a whirl, except the liver isn't exactly my favourite organ; I almost 
died of liver failure as a child, and I've been trying to poison it to 
death ever since.  #%o)

>So, how does this all fit into UA?

Um, anyone for lardomancy?  #%o)

>   Well, as you may
>know, chicken farming is a hotly debated issue right
>now.  Egg-laying chickens are kept in small cages and
>Germany is likely to pass a law making this illegal.
>Wait... I forgot where I was going with this.

Perhaps an irascimantic chicken farmer who keeps battery hens because their 
environment keeps them naturally strung out?  When he needs a charge, he 
just pokes a few of them with a big stick.

Actually, I've been wondering how effective it would be to use animals to 
charge up from.  One UA campaign idea that I've had includes a group of 
ivory poachers with a thanatomancer who gains charges from elephant 
kills.  Would animal thanatomancers get more charges from killing a 
particularly rare beast?  How about famous animals?  Could someone, say, 
get a major charge from putting a bullet in Lassie? #%o)



David M Jacobs
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http://www.zipworld.com.au/~dmjacobs/
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"'Kevin,' David interrupted, 'what the Germans should have done
was show the Russians a dead cat and ask them to explain it.'

"'That would have stopped the Soviet offensive right there,' I said.
"Zhukov would still be trying to account for the cat's death.'"

— from Valis, by Philip K Dick


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