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Catching Bird Flu Hysteria
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| Contributor | CBlock941 |
| Last Edited | CBlock941 Nov 08, 2005 01:34pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, November 8, 2005 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | If the recent news explosion about bird flu has taught us anything, it's that food scares abhor a vacuum. Now that the British government has declared the mad-cow scare has peaked and is in decline, the news media -- and animal rights groups -- are substituting one animal-disease panic for another. The predictable result can be found in a nationwide opinion survey that the Center for Consumer Freedom recently commissioned. Our polling data, released this morning, indicate that a whopping 47 percent of Americans believe the myth that they can contract bird flu by eating chicken. |
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