We Have Nothing to Fear But Dinner Itself

At last, a solution to the nation’s obesity epidemic: If current trends continue, Americans will be afraid to eat much of anything. Old-fashioned disease and newfangled technology are the culprits. Mad-cow mania has gained momentum here, with 30 percent of respondents to a Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll calling the bovine disease a “major threat” to the “health and safety of Americans.” At the beginning of last month, 28 percent of people in a Gallup poll were “very concerned” that mad-cow disease would become a problem in the U.S.