Green Hearts

Anne Enright

  • Meanwhile Back at the Ranch: The Politics of Irish Beef by Fintan O’Toole
    Vintage, 292 pp, £6.99, January 1995, ISBN 0 09 051451 3

I bumped into my brother in the street and we talked about Fintan O’Toole’s book on the beef tribunal. I told him to read it immediately. I myself had stopped both reading about the beef tribunal and eating beef in 1991, after a two-line thing in the Irish Times about cirrhotic calves’ livers being packed by someone, somewhere in Ireland. My brother is a civil servant. He did not reel, gag, or clutch his throat. He said: ‘Come on. You can’t get cirrhosis by eating it in beef.’

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Vol. 17 No. 15 · 3 August 1995 » Anne Enright » Green Hearts (print version)
pages 26-27 | 2710 words