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This Isn’t Chopped Liver: A sculpture of a dress made of raw meat, hanging at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, has outraged Canadian politicians and food-aid agencies who find it a “symbol of waste” in a time of recession. Museum curators defended the work, called “Vanitas,” as a graphic reminder of mortality and the aging process. When the meat--50 pounds of salted flank--decomposes after six weeks, it will be replaced with a fresh batch. “Replacing it is disgusting,” a Salvation Army captain said. “Fifty pounds of meat would probably give us a meal for a couple of hundred people easily.”