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...alert," said Chuck Lambert, chief economist at the U.S. National Cattlemen's Beef Association as Department of Agriculture inspectors imposed strict checks on goods and passengers arriving from Britain and France. "We have to re-energize our systems and not be lax." From Sydney to Seattle, worried officials banned European meat imports, confiscated sandwiches and decontaminated arriving passengers to prevent inadvertent infection by a disease that, like everything else these days, is going global. Full Story...
...cows. "Now 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...
Oprah in a Range War Speaking of ammo, jury selection begins today as Texas cattlemen lock and load in their case against Oprah. As bad ideas go, suing a popular talk show host over an obscure law against defaming beef ranks right up there with saying "Icebergs? I don't see any icebergs. Full steam ahead...
TEXAS ("MAD, MAD, MAD") CATTLEMEN OCCUPATION: Killing bovines BEST PUNCH: Thirteen cattlemen have forced Oprah to move her talk show to Amarillo, Texas, on Jan. 26 for a multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit they filed under Texas' popular "veggie libel...
Sources: Associated Press, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, VMI, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Parcel Service...