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GUARDIAN Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:04:21 GMT
People who've been informed of the dangers of meat, particularly the cheap processed variety, but who continue to wolf it down should be held accountable
There have been times during my years of vegetarianism when I've wondered if I may indeed grow out of it. I've wondered if there might come a day when I'll put aside my childish aversion to the thought of dead stuff travelling through my intestines, like a corpse on a raft ride.
However, it could never happen, and not because I'm so enlightened, sensitive or any of the other euphemisms for "whining hippie" usually dumped on vegetarians. My conversion to flesh-eating couldn't happen because, frankly, I'm not stupid enough. As in, I can read.
Analysis of more than 6,000 pancreatic cancer cases published in the British Journal of Cancer says that eating just 50g of processed meat a day (one sausage or a couple of slices of bacon) raises the likelihood of pancreatic cancer by a fifth. 100g a day (the equivalent of a medium burger)..
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GUARDIAN Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:40:47 GMT
Barbican, London
Hofesh Shechter has attracted huge acclaim for dance pieces such as Uprising and The Art of Not Looking Back, for which he also devised the music. His newest piece, Survivor, a 75-minute audiovisual work, is a collaboration with Antony Gormley, and is not so much dance as live art or minimalist "opera".
Gormley's staging exploits the technical bare bones of the theatre: trapdoors, gantries, the gleaming jaws of the safety curtain. Things begin promisingly, with a dramatic row of top-lit performers, singing wordlessly, rising from below on a lift. They disperse to raised platforms to play their instruments – drums, strings and guitars.
One visually arresting section uses an overhead camera to project the dancers' synchronised floor movements on to the screen behind. Other monochrome projections show a collapsing building, flocking birds, a waterfall and more live feeds. One dancer, like a living Gormley cast, supplies a calm presence to the percussive........
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GUARDIAN Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:15:00 GMT
A heartfelt, beautifully-made homage to anime director Yoshihiro Tatsumi, that fights a little shy of investigating exactly what inspired his bizarre style
Here is a striking study of the Japanese manga master Yoshihiro Tatsumi (now 76 years old) who invented the adult "gekiga" form of the genre: a kind of psychological noir. The film is rendered in the hand-drawn style of Tatsumi himself: both in the telling of his lifestory, and dramatising some of his classic tales of sexual obsession, violence and fear, particularly the extraordinary Good Bye, the story of a self-hating prostitute in postwar Japan, despised by both her neighbours and clients, who winds up drunkenly seducing her pathetic old father so as to nullify his emotional claim on her. But the slightly slushy tone of celebration rather obtusely fails to engage with the nihilist, pessimist nature of Tatsumi's work. Anyway, an intriguing event.
Rating: 3/5
Animation
World cinema
Peter Bradshaw
guardian.co.uk © 2012.....
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