Meat eaters don't mind 'mad cow'
March 14, 2006
MarketWatch: The creeping spread of avian flu and the discovery of a third case of mad-cow disease in the United States apparently have yet to dampen the American appetite for beef and chicken.
However, elsewhere on the world, the appearance of the maladies has led to sharp declines in demand for the meats, as evidenced both by the huge drop in beef sales following a mad-cow outbreak in Europe in the 1990s and the recent plunge in poultry sales in Asia, where bird flu has hit hardest.