Americans and Red Meat: A Love-Hate Relationship?

Harvard Health Letter, May 1, 1998

When talk-show host Oprah Winfrey blurted out on national television that the threat of mad cow disease "stopped me cold from eating another burger," an unusual footnote in history was about to be written. A group of irate Texas cattlemen sued Winfrey, claiming that the remark triggered a drop in cattle prices.