Right now, you cannot remove "ANIMAL is also the nation's favorite dish" from your canon stats page.
NAME: Stick a Fork In @@ANIMAL@@ Eating, It's Done
DESCRIPTION: Patriots and animal rights activists have called for the end of @@ANIMAL@@ eating, citing reasons ranging from national pride to cruelty.
VALIDITY: For all nations that have selected their national animal as an edible delicacy.
THE ISSUE:
[option]"Whoever had the idea of eating @@ANIMAL@@ was an idiot." scorns @@RANDOMNAME@@, wearing a shirt with a big-eyed, baby @@ANIMAL@@. "@@ANIMAL@@ meats have little nutritional value, they taste like cotton underpants, and are expensive to process. That doesn't even cover the cruelty needed to end the life of any given @@ANIMAL@@. Only a reversal of this practice is sufficient to save @@ANIMAL@@!" Patriotic citizen, @@RANDOMNAME@@, chimes in alongside the activist. "@@ANIMAL@@ is a treasured symbol of our country, and we give it no respect or honor. Rather, we eat it. What sort of sick country has the idea that a symbol of pride's main place should be on a plate? Like my hippie colleague said, we must end this uncivilized practice post-haste!"
[effect]the government is close to breaking up a poaching operation to supply steady amounts of illegal @@ANIMAL@@ meats
[stats]Environmental Beauty up (more animals to frolick in forests), Beef-Based-Agriculture slashed, general Agriculture up, Crime slightly up, Law and Order slightly up (fight poaching), Unemployment up
[option]"Cute." remarks @@RANDOMNAME@@, famous game hunter and spokesman for @@ANIMAL@@ Nuggets. "-but let's say you went through with that stupid idea. That'll drastically cut hunting for @@ANIMAL@@s down and will cause them to reproduce past the ecosystem's carrying capacity. Don't any of you remember when @@ANIMAL@@s were ravaging crops and rummaging through trash cans? I do. The food should stay, and besides, it's absolutely delicious!" he lays a box of @@ANIMAL@@ Nuggets on your desk and slides it closer. "I wasn't paid to support this.", he whispers, winking to you before he exits.
[effect]@@ANIMAL@@ meat remains the most popular dish in @@NAME@@
[stats]Agriculture up, Beef-based Agriculture way up, Economic Freedoms up, Economy up, Civil Rights slightly up (right to put what you want into your bodies), Averageness down (eating Nat. Animals is not meant to be normal), Unemployment down, Most Free Market up,
[option]"Son, ah think I know a good solution fer everyone!" a flash of light goes off and a strange grey being with bulbous, black eyes appears behind you. He says he is named @@RANDOMNAME_REVERSED@@, and is wearing nothing but a cowboy hat. "It just ain't normal to eat national critters, but they's also dang'rous in the wald. So here's the idee-yuh. What we's askin' is, every now n' then, to take some of them @@ANIMALS@@ off your hands. We come in, remove the @@ANIMAL@@, and leave some sorta' compensation on the ground. Like fruit baskets, seeds, or somethin'. That way, none of 'ya eat those thangs and yer crops are safe from the varmints! What'cha say? We gots a deal?"
[effect]sightings of animal abductions and wild fruit trees are rapidly up and down the country
[stats]Economy down (fruits flooding market), Retail down (fruits flooding market) Unemployment up (lost Nat. Animal agriculture jobs, lost retail jobs, lost fruit orchard jobs) Averageness way down, Environment up (reforestation), Environmental Beauty down (no Nat. Animals), Death by Scurvy way down (fruit abundance), Agriculture slightly up, Retail down (wild fruit harvests), Death by Malnutrition down, Health up, Obesity down
(POSSIBLE: Tech Advancement up because aliens; POSSIBLE: Corruption up because deals with aliens)
