Mr Rocker has become easy meat on all the late night talk shows and a soundbite for politicians across the spectrum.

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Addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, he went relatively easy on the red-meat lines that conservatives eat up, and used phrases seldom heard at the often bombastic annual convention.

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It's easy to say that we don't need a meat organ to survive or to live.

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He believed the chicken had been chopped and formed much like a meat loaf, with binders added, which makes those calories easy to swallow.

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An easy way to prevent contaminated food is to use a food thermometer when grilling or smoking meat.

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Their frequent mixture within humans--compounded by our misuse and abuse of these antibio-tics in soaps and meat--along with their ability to swap DNA with other species, make it easy for them to spread acquired resistance.

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