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Nuclear Power: The Ugly Truth
An Interview With Richard Webb
I’d have to assume that you’re going to get a disastrous accident within the next 20 years, 30 years, right around there . . . I may be wrong . . . We’re liable to have one next week.
February 1978The Chain Gang
Consumers foot the bill for the supermarket monopolies. And what a bill! A 1975 government report found that 41% of the increase in food margins in a nine-year period was the result of rising advertising and promotional expenses — money spent not to better our diet but to manipulate us as shoppers.
December 1977A Banana By Any Other Name
The Case Against Brand-Name Vegetables
Four years after the Chiquita campaign had been launched, United had captured nearly a third of the country’s market at prices 10 to 15% higher than other bananas. Through brand name promotion, United had convinced consumers to pay more for Chiquitas than other bananas and to like doing it.
July 1977Temple Sweeper
Eight years ago I decided to become a vegetarian. This decision corresponded roughly with a hazily conceptual political activism and very clearly with an infatuation with a male vegetarian. Since then . . . concern for my diet has moved from the realm of “proof of lifestyle” to a central place in my efforts toward well being.
June 1977Creating Hunger: The World Food Crisis
The question is not “How can we get them to feed themselves?” How paternalistic! People will feed themselves unless they are prevented from doing so. The fact is that the poor of this world are engaged in feeding us and trying to feed themselves.
November 1976Dialogue With My Shell
as a turtle of eternity, to abstract within mySelf is evolutional prerogative. from such a featherstance, unmoored and let loose on the seas of cognition, my essential faculties explore the relics of significance lodged within a correspondent synchronicity which has no mercy for distortions.
May 1976Peopletalk: Language And Other Expressions
Language, more than anything else, separates man from other animals. It plays a dominant role in shaping our conceptions about the world. Language is a means of transmitting and storing information, generally with words or other symbols.
January 1976Woeful Cowboy
I was working with Allen yesterday afternoon when Anne came to door & said to Allen “Ed Wall’s here to see you” — “I didn’t make any appointments” Allen explained to me as he got up.
December 1975
