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...small thing to rebrand a national icon - particularly if you're rebranding it as a meat product. A few years ago, Australia's food industry was trying to figure out how to get more people to think of the kangaroo, which is part of the country's official coat of arms, as something that is edible rather than adorable. In 2005, the trade magazine Food Companion International ran a global competition for suggestions on what to call kangaroo meat. The magazine received 2,700 entries from more than 40 nations. Proposed names included rooviande, kangasaurus, jumpmeat and MOM (meat...
...name hasn't really caught on, but the meat certainly has. In the past three years, Australian sales of kangaroo have increased 30% as it has gained more cred as a healthy and free-range alternative to lamb and beef. Now, with a recession in full swing, the relatively inexpensive, lean red meat is moving even faster. "Sales are going through the roof," says Ray Borda, owner of Adelaide-based Macro Meats, a meat-processing company that sells about 200 tons of kangaroo meat per week. "One, it's cheaper. Two, it's better for you. Three, it's better...
...member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Specter once called witnesses like former adult film star Linda Lovelace, children's television show host Captain Kangaroo, and several jurors from the John Hinckley Jr. trial to illustrate his points on juvenile justice. Senator Paul Simon once publicly chided Specter for the gimmicks...
...detainees in U.S. federal courts or in the regular military justice system. But this preference is not a substitute for firm policy: The use of military commissions should be explicitly and permanently forbidden, and, at some point, someone must be held accountable for the unconstitutional use of such kangaroo courts by the Bush administration...
Villages infested with vampire bats are one thing. But Nicaragua has its own folklore of blood-sucking monsters. From tales of the infamous chupacabras - the mythical alien, kangaroo, batdog that feeds on the blood of goats and chickens - to the lesser-known comelenguas, an unseen beast that feeds on the tongues of sleeping cattle, most Nicaraguan farmers can hold their own when it comes to telling vampire stories around a campfire. But, perhaps just like The X-Files, there could be an element of truth to some of the legends...