On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey did a show about mad cow disease. Six weeks later, a couple of Texas cattlemen had a cow (sorry). Support us:<ul><li><a href='https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase'>Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href='https://paypal.me/maintenancephase'>Donate on PayPal</a></li><li><a href='http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase'>Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li><li><a href='https://www.aubreygordon.net/myths'>Buy Aubrey's book</a></li><li><a href='https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/if-books-could-kill/id1651876897?ign-itscg=30200S&ign-itsct=podcast_box'>Listen to Mike's other podcast</a></li></ul>Links!<ul><li><a href='https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2289177/texas-beef-group-v-winfrey/?'>Original Lawsuit</a></li><li><a href='http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/98/98-10391.CV0.wpd.pdf'>Appeal</a></li><li><a href='https://www.britannica.com/story/a-brief-history-of-food-libel-laws'>How Oprah Got Sued for Dissing a Burger</a></li><li><a href='https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1395&context=wmborj'>Two Degrees of Speech Protection </a></li><li><a href='http://nationalaglawcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/assets/bibarticles/hayenga_texas.pdf'>Texas Cattle Feeders v. Oprah Winfrey: The First Major Test of the “Veggie Libel Law”</a></li><li><a href='https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3138/9781442602465-017/html'>Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials</a></li><li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voChEjkL4CY'>Howard Lyman talk</a></li><li><a href='https://aglawjournal.wp.drake.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2016/09/agVol03No1-Harders.pdf'>The Unconstitutionality Of Iowa's Proposed Agricultural Food Products Act And Similar Veggie Libel Laws</a></li><li><a href='https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520931510/html?lang=en'>How the Cows Turned Mad</a></li><li><a href='https://www.illinoislawreview.org/wp-content/ilr-content/articles/2006/3/Berlowitz.pdf'>Food Safety Vs. Promotion Of Industry: Can The USDA Protect Americans From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?</a></li><li><a href='https://jpia.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/toruqf1661/files/1999-10.pdf'>Apocalypse Cow</a></li><li><a href='https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-02-183.pdf'>GAO report</a></li><li><a href='https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1925552'>A is for Apple, Alar, and ... Alarmist?</a></li><li><a href='https://www.acsh.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/20040504_alar_5.pdf'>Alar Five Years Later</a></li><li><a href='https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/cases/380'>Auvil v. CBS 60 Minutes</a></li><li><a href='https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED339064.pdf'>Alar and Apples: Newspaper Coverage of a Major Risk Issue.</a></li></ul>Thanks to <a href='https://freesound.org/people/Doctor_Dreamchip/'>Doctor Dreamchip</a> for our lovely theme song! <a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a>

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Oprah v. Beef Part 1: The Rise of "Veggie Libel"

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes