fodder

(eg. metaphor, celtic, tone )

fodder /ˈfɑ dər/ ?

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(n) soldiers who are regarded as expendable in the face of artillery fire
(n) coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop
(v) give fodder (to domesticated animals)

Letourneau's beauty and struggles with manic depression made her illicit affair the fodder of tabloids and women's magazines around the world.
Her yummily lurid bio has provided fodder for everything from a failed Broadway musical to Jackie Susann's trash classics to a fictionalized portrait in Miller's play After the Fall.
A cousin from the front lines confirms the use of underclass children as mine fodder.

Fern said: "The next thing will be a comparison between me and the goddess who replaces me on This Morning. But that's fine. I couldn't care less but it annoys me to be used as fodder."
on Jul 7, 2009 By: Fern Britton Source: ITN
"Passengers are growing weary of schedules that aren't worth the electrons they're printed on," Marion C. Blakey told a group of aviation executives at the Aero Club. "Airline schedules have got to stop being the fodder for late-night...
on Sep 11, 2007 By: Marion Blakey Source: CNN
The case is "fodder for the bigots," Abraham H. Foxman, the ADL's national director, said in an interview this week with The Associated Press. "It's both embarrassing and it's painful."
on Dec 25, 2008 By: Abraham Foxman Source: International Herald Tribune