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'21 Favorite: Oprah's Beef Beef (1996)

Published: Nov. 25, 2021, 1:11 p.m.

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This Thanksgiving week, we\\u2019re running some favorite episodes from the year that you may have missed. We\\u2019ll be back the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

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This episode originally aired on April 15th. On this day in 1996, Oprah Winfrey hosted a segment on her show about \\u201cMad Cow Disease\\u201d and proclaimed that she would no longer eat beef. That same day, cattle futures plummeted, and she was soon sued by the cattle industry.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss the power of Oprah, the \\u201cveggie libel laws\\u201d and how she turned the trial into both television and a free speech crusade.

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Find a transcript of this episode at:\\xa0https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory

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