BY FROMA HARROP Come July Fourth, millions of Americans will toss burgers on the grill without a second thought. It was different 14 years ago. Remember “mad cow disease” – the health crisis that never happened? Shortly before Independence Day 2004, the U.S. Agriculture Department announced – James Comey-like – the discovery of two “inconclusive” cases of mad cow disease. You can imagine what that did to hamburger sales. The alarm turned out to be […]
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