The Meat Sheet [was: rebranding]

[Joel S. Berson]

With what does one feed the meat sheet?  And does that feed cost less
than the feed fed to an equivalent supply of feed animals?

And it will make branding and rebranding (rustling) awfully tame.

Joel

At 6/3/2011 10:04 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:
>I guess "Chicken Little" ("The Space Merchants", Pohl and Kornbluth) has
>arrived.
>
>http://phronesisaical.blogspot.com/2006/06/chicken-little.html
>
>Eric
>
>On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > Poster:       Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: rebranding
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> > Many readers will be familiar with the "urban legend" regarding the
> > rebranding of Kentucky Fried Chicken as KFC.  The aim was not to eliminate
> > the opprobrius "fried" but rather to avoid the word "chicken"--which,
> > according to (instrusive) government regulations, must designate
> a a living,
> > breathing, feathered, two-winged, two-lfooted, one-backed, one-necked fowl.
> >  You see, the corporation is now raising hydroponic pseudo-birds, without
> > feathers or wings or feet or backs or necks or heads or entrials--just the
> > choice and profitable parts of the fryer.
> >
> >
> > --Charlie
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> > KFC was also advertising a=A0few years ago as Kitchen Fresh
> > Chicken.=0A=0A-=
> > -Margaret Lee=0A=0A>> >Kentucky Fried Chicken --> KFC (to avoid the
> > referen=
> > ce to "fried" food)=0A>=0A> Some of these abbreviations, like the above
> > cou=
> > ple, overlap with the=0A> more general practice of euphemistic distancing
> > b=
> > y initialism=0A> extending to the rebranding of non-brands, as in V.D. and
> > =
> > STD/STI=0A> (discussed here recently), along with E.D., P.E. (not the gym
> > k=
> > ind),=0A> and now in commercials Low T.=A0 I like to think of these as
> > plai=
> > n=0A> brown wrapper initialisms.=0A>=0A> LH=0A>=0A>
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