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Skriven 2010-04-30 15:19:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:261/1381)
     Kommentar till en text av JANIS KRACHT
Ärende: Re: Bad Drivers?
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-=> Quoting Janis Kracht to Nancy Backus on 04-29-10  11:47 <=-

 > Can't think of the name of the novel I read years ago which graphically
 > portrayed the stockyards in Chicago (I think it was) and the inhumane
 > conditions under which the immigrant workers had to work therein...  As
 > I recall, it was instrumental in getting some changes to conditions
 > there...  Pretty bad, but it didn't put me off meat... just made me more
 > conscious of what conditions might be like for some of the processing...
 > (I'll probably think of the name of the book in the middle of the
 > night... some night, anyway... [g])
 JK> I know what you mean there... sometimes if I just forget about
 JK> something I'm trying to remember, it will suddenly just come to mind ;)
 JK> I'm not sure if I'd recognize the name of the book though... she tried
 JK> to get me to read it, IIRC, I resisted (g).

And UDD came up with the name of mine...  The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. 
I'd got as far as remembering that Sinclair was part of the author's
name (but not that it was his family name).  The story remains rather
vivid in the imagination, if not all the details... ;)   I'm pretty sure
I read it as a school assignment, but haven't a clue any more which
level of school... :)

 >>> But just think of it as meat, and it's fine... ;)
 >> I have a hard time killing lobsters now BUT... not that much (g)
 > After all, they taste so good....!  (G)

 JK> Yes, they sure do - one of my favorites, really.. One year for
 JK> Christmas dinner, I made lobster tails and steak (surf n' turf) because
 JK> I knew my daughter wouldn't eat meat, but luckily she doesn't consider
 JK> fish/seafood meat :)  I of course pigged out on both (g)

Just don't let her know the conditions under which the lobster might
have been raised, caught, processed, etc...  (g)  Meanwhile, there's
more meat for the rest of you... ;)

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