The Week contest: Meat fight
This week's question: French butchers have written to the government asking for protection against militant vegans, who they accuse of trying to kill off the country's meat eating culture by vandalizing butchers shops with anti-carnivore graffiti and stickers. If Hollywood were to make a movie about the escalating conflict between butchers and vegans, what title could it give the film?
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THE WINNER: "Apocalypse Cow"
Roman T. Ciapalo, Dubuque, Iowa
SECOND PLACE: "Gangs of No Pork"
Talia Rauch, Teaneck, New Jersey
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THIRD PLACE: "The Kale-ing Fields"
Annette Entin, North Caldwell, New Jersey
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Flora! Flora! Flora!"
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia
"Get Charcuterie"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Boeuf-fy the Vegan Slayer"
Patty Oberhausen, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Lentil Shop of Horrors"
Wallace Fingerett, Woodland Hills, California
"Enemy of the Steak"
Nancy Persson, South Easton, Massachusetts
"An Eye For A Ribeye"
Guy Rusiski, Pittsburgh
"Shootout at the Okra Corral"
Rich Savage, Taylors, South Carolina
"From Hare to Zucchini"
Bruce Mitchell, Camdenton, Missouri
"Hamburger Nill"
Troy Huffman, Aurora, Colorado
"Burger on the Orient Express"
Joe Frank, Scottsdale, Arizona
"In Ham’s Way"
Steve Ziobro, Reeseville, Wisconsin
"A Farewell to Hams"
Laurel Wroten, Fort Klamath, Oregon
"To Sirloin, Without Love"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"Give Peas a Chance"
Catherine Pomiecko, Natick, Massachusetts
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