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   CLUB SANDWICH 58

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MORE ELVIS

            The twin Macs have been at it again. After a couple of years' silence, two more songs from the songwriting collaboration sessions between Paul and Elvis Costello, to be credited for all the world to see as McCartney-Mac Manus, are now available. The tracks appeared on Elvis's new album Mighty Like A Rose, issued worldwide in mid-May.
            The two in question are 'Playboy To A Man' and 'So Like Candy', and both stem from Paul and Elvis's original get-together in late 1987. (Elvis actually performed 'So Like Candy' during his 1989 US concert tour.) Both are genuine 50:50 efforts, crafted after the two men had become acquainted with each other's style by "fixing" some songs already partially completed by one or the other, such as Paul's 'Back On My Feet'.
            The release of these two brings to nine the total number of McCartney-Mac Manus compositions currently available...

            Paul has issued: 'Back On My Feet' 'My Brave Face' 'You Want Her Too' 'Don't Be Careless Love' 'That. Day Is Done'
            Elvis has issued: 'Veronica' 'Pads, Paws And Claws' 'So Like Candy' 'Playboy To A Man'

            Though we could never advocate home-taping, if you've already legitimately paid good money for all of these songs, it could be quietly suggested that these nine, well sequenced, would make a handy Paul McCartney And Elvis Costello cassette for the car...
            Perhaps, though, such an exercise should be held off a while longer - for just before last Christmas, Paul and Elvis resumed their work together, co-penning a further cache of new material that may see release on Paul's next studio album.

Club Sandwich 58


AND IN THE GREEN CORNER

TO INTRODUCE OUR NEW, REGULAR FEATURE ON GREEN ISSUES WE CONTINUE OUR VEGGIE THEME FROM THE LAST SANDWICH.
PETER HUDSON, A VEGETARIAN FOR MANY YEARS, HERE PUTS A CLEAR CASE FOR A HEALTHY LIFE WITHOUT FLESH

            Vegetarianism dates back many thousands of years. Man at one time was most certainly fruitarian (nuts and fruits), however during one of the glacial periods in the earth's history, plant life became difficult to find under the ice and in order for man to survive he became a hunter. But in the present day, there are very few areas of the world where a hostile environment necessitates man to slaughter innocent creatures in order to sustain himself.
            The highest degree of physical well-being can be obtained on a balanced vegetarian diet. Many athletes have proved this over the years. They have not had to take animal flesh in order to achieve their records.
            In most parts of the world, plant food is in great abundance and variety, yet the cruel and senseless acts of aggression against the animal kingdom continues unabated. The frustration, terror and pain suffered by billions of creatures yearly in factory farms and slaughter houses is a sad indictment of modern civilization.
            The production of plant foods only requires about half the land of that for the production of animal foods. In the face of possible widespread hunger owing to the population explosion, the time might come when necessity demands a return to the vegetarian diet by most of the world's people.
            Anatomically, man does not resemble a carnivorous creature, who has a short intestine for rapid elimination of decomposing flesh and an excess of hydrochloric acid to break down its harmful toxins. Carnivorous creatures also have teeth or fangs designed for tearing flesh, and savage, sharp claws, while the hydrochloric acid is present in ten times greater quantity than in a human.
            No, man more closely resembles the relatively frugivorous great apes. These vegetarian animals have long bowels for digesting the vegetable foods and their teeth and jaws are designed for chewing, not tearing. The enzyme vitalin is present in the saliva for the primary digestion of starches.
            Cancer, cardio-vascular disease, strokes, arthritis and mutiple sclerosis are more prevalent in flesh-eating communities. I must stress the point that flesh is not just protein but contains putrefying matter. The cellular waste of the slaughtered animal, purins, and other toxins, even if the animal was not sick when it went to the slaughterhouse, can be responsible for these killer diseases. Meat is therefore in the first state of rigor mortis. It is the begining of decomposition of the tissues, which means that fresh meat from the butcher is dead flesh and not fresh at all. To cope with meat we must cook it, since otherwise it would putrefy in our long slowly-moving intestine, and we must use an additional digestive process to produce ferments and acid, capable of digesting our own flesh, which can lead to ulcers in the stomachs and the duodenum.
            However, we can digest plant food easily, regularly and in quantity. We even depend heavily on its fibre content and bulk to convey all other matter through our long intestines and provide the most appropriate climate in them for digestion. Things go rapidly wrong if we miss a regular dietary routine of cereals, grains, vegetables, fruits, pulses, legumes etc.
            Meat can never be obtained without injuring creatures. We should consider the cruelty of fettering and slaying corporeal beings. He who permits the slaughter of animals, he who cuts up, kills, buys, sells, cooks, serves flesh is a slayer of animals. All creatures should be treated as ones self and should be protected as such.
            Until we boycott flesh we are each one of us contributing to the continued existence of slaughterhouses and all the other cruel practices associated with the rearing of animals for food.