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...sure to get plenty of the B vitamins folate and B6. Daily intake of 550 mcg of folate plus 3 mg of B6--both higher than the RDA--may cut the risk of heart disease in half. Green leafy veggies and eggs contain folate; for B6, try bananas or beef...
Oprah Winfrey told the producer in charge of editing her talk show to "cut that boring beef guy out" of an episode on mad cow disease, said a former senior producer of the program. In testimony videotaped in December and played for jurors in Amarillo, TX, Monday, LaGrande Green, who was fired from the "Oprah Winfrey Show" last summer, said producer James Kelley told him that Oprah ordered pro-cattleman statements edited out of the final show. Ranchers are suing Winfrey, her production company and a food safety activist for $10.3 million, claiming that remarks made on an Oprah show...
...doesn't that concern you all a little bit, right here, hearing that?" she asked, eliciting a roar of approval from the audience. With that, Oprah uttered the now famous words: "It has just stopped me cold from eating another burger!" Then a representative of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association conceded that, yes, there was "a limited amount" of feeding cattle to cattle occurring in the U.S. Taken together, all that had an Oprah-size impact. Cattle prices plummeted the day it aired, and kept heading south for two weeks, in what beef traders called the "Oprah Crash...
Like any good Americans, the beef industry decided to sue. Texas rancher Paul Engler, who claims he lost more than $6 million, charged in a federal lawsuit that the show's "carefully and maliciously edited statements were designed to hype ratings at the expense of the American cattle industry." Engler's suit against Oprah and Lyman, which went to trial in Amarillo last week, is the first ever under an odd Texas statute--one that forbids food "disparagement" and opens the way for lawsuits when fruits, vegetables or meat are defamed...
...doctors James Robl and Steven Stice and all the boys at the Ultimate Genetics ranch, however, cloning is a matter of fact. While cloned calves Charlie and George don't have human genes in their milk, Robl and Stice say the next ones will. Perhaps the FDA's beef should really be with these guys...