Raw horse. Interesting. It seems that overfishing of tuna has reduced the catch that the Japanese market can buy, thus raising prices and motivating them to start offering other things at the sushi table, such as smoked deer and raw horse. Naturally, as the human food system goes global, and everyone tries to live at the same level as Americans and Europeans, the things we eat will have to be carefully managed, or vanish.

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It has been interesting to see people reacting to global warming and the increasing prices of oil and gas. It’s almost like the energy crisis of the 1970s never happened. Of course, that was political, but still, it changed life a little bit when you could only buy gas on certain days of the week, depending on your license plate number. Lots of people became enthused about conservation, and people could immediately see the use of cars (read Japanese), that got lots of miles per gallon.

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