Goof alert imdb!


"This Never Happened Before" is not in this film, but rather "The Lake House". Just thought I'd help. I love the song though. :-)

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Another goof: Lucy says she sits in her tollbooth "like a veal." City folk! The meat is veal. The animal it comes from is called a veal calf.

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I assumed she meant a side of veal, as in the carcass, just hanging in a butchers shop.

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No, she means that when she's in her toll booth, she feels like a veal calf in a crate. After it's separated from its mother, a calf that's destined to be slaughtered for veal is placed in a crate so narrow that it can't turn around. Keeping the calf nearly immobile insures that its meat will be tender, because exercise is what makes animal tissue become tough.

Abolition of animal crates has been a (dare I say) pet cause of PETA and other animal-rights groups for years. It's not just calves; on factory farms, a sow that has farrowed (given birth to a litter of piglets) is also confined in a narrow barred crate. Her piglets can reach through the bars to nurse, but the sow can't move.

Sows are some of the best mothers in the animal kingdom, but a full-grown sow can weigh a couple of hundred pounds. A piglet can be crushed to death if its mother accidentally steps on it, and the farmer has lost his investment in that piglet. This is how farmers justify crating their sows.

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Yeah.

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Thanks for reminding me of the horrible, cruel, hartless animal industry. That's why I'm a vegetarian!

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Oh, ok that makes sense now.

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