"It plays on our psychology, " says Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma.

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The documents reveal that Carnivore was originally created in February 1997 under the name Omnivore, and it was originally proposed for a Sun Microsystems Inc.

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"Many of the demos and alternate tracks I heard when I first pulled the tapes were beautiful, stripped-down versions of the originals, which tended to bury the essence of his songs with overdubbed strings, choirs and horns, " said Cheryl Pawelski, Omnivore's founder and the set's producer.

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In the study, when a longtime omnivore consumed an eight-ounce steak and a carnitine supplement, both his bacteria and TMAO levels rose considerably.

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In June 1999, Omnivore was replaced by a system the FBI now calls Carnivore, which runs on a Microsoft Corp.

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