I could eat an elephant.

But that is a hard doctrine to swallow much harder than eating the extra slice of cake that you know is not good for you.

The author Zheng Yi reported that in Wuxuan County alone, more than 100 people were eaten, because devouring enemies was the only way to prove one s love for Mao.

Start with the American consumer, who consumes everything on earth (helping the United States eat up 25 of world oil production) but saves essentially nothing.

The Constitutional Tribunal s decision gives hope that the second phase of the Polish revolution will not consume either its father, the will to freedom, or its child, the democratic state.

In fact, the artificially inflated demand for ethanol and for the corn to manufacture it wound up driving up food prices (which pushed roughly 30 million poor people into the ranks of the malnourished). It also ate up more arable land, which led directly to the destruction of rain forests and generally created a situation that will result in more CO2 emissions over the next hundred years.