Scare over cow diseases leaves some with a bad taste

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Scare over cow diseases leaves some with a bad taste

 

No risk here, meat producers say, but veggies looking good to skittish

 

By Julie Deardorff

Tribune Staff Writer

March 11, 2001

 

Vegetarians, long ridiculed for their tofu-eating lifestyle, can't help

but feel a bit smug these days. Between the mad cow crisis and

unappetizing reports of hoof-and-mouth disease, the meat-free diet is

suddenly gaining converts.

 

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