Mises Daily
Author:
Christopher Westley
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There are roughly 35 million cattle slaughtered each year in the United States. This means that, in 2003, one in 35 million U.S. cattle were confirmed to have mad cow disease. Infected cattle comprised three millionths of one percent of all cattle, or 0.000003%. So why the mad cow scare? In one sense, the scare is legitimate. It reflects an