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WORLD, Page 49World NotesSOVIET UNIONFlunking a Taste Test
The spirit of glasnost is infusing the Soviet press, and its
new, muckraking style of journalism already has some officials up
a tree. When the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta published a report
last year that meat producers were breaking the law by putting
protein additives and other impurities in their sausage, the paper
was promptly sued by a group of Moscow meatpackers, who demanded
a retraction.
LitGaz not only stood by the story but also took its case
directly to a jury of sausage savants at the Fauna Cat Lovers Club
in Dzerzhinsky, where the editors conducted a random taste test
with some finicky felines. Last week, in an article titled "May the
Cats Judge Us," the paper reported the results of its poll: out of
30 cats, only a two-month-old kitten named Mura would deign to dine
on the suspect sausage. Asked the Gazeta: "All kitties, like Mura,
must loyally love sausage. That's the way it's always been since
man thought up sausage. But why, the devil take them, won't they
eat it? And why do we continue to eat it?"