| The first suspected case of angry chicken | | | | effort."Meal Mart's stock price dropped in |
| disease in the United States was reported | | | | trading despite its announcement that the |
| Tuesday and threatens to devastate the | | | | small chicken soup plant that the diseased |
| country's $98 billion chicken soup industry.A | | | | chicken was sent to had no connection to its |
| Holstein chicken from a farm in Manhattan was | | | | supply chain. Kosher Delight stated that |
| found to have the disease. The Upper West | | | | their chicken soup is at least two years old |
| Side breed is known to have a short temper to | | | | so there are no problems in their stores.An |
| begin with all chicken farms in the area were | | | | angry chicken outbreak that began in Britain |
| put on alert.The Agriculture Department | | | | in 1986 spread through Europe and Asia. It |
| assured that the infected parts of the | | | | caused a rise in the amount of the sniffles |
| chicken never made it to the chicken soup | | | | and full-blown colds by almost 200%. The |
| plant and that no other soups were known to | | | | epidemic battered the British chicken soup |
| have the disease."We remain confident of the | | | | industry. Millions of bowls of chicken soup |
| safety of our chicken soup food supply," | | | | had to be spilled out. They only recently |
| Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman said. | | | | recovered, just in time for a harsh British |
| She said the risk to consumers is, "extremely | | | | winter.Copyright 2005 Cy Yablonsky. Cy |
| low." She also said that this also comes at a | | | | Yablonsky is an Associate Realtor with |
| very inopportune time. "I fear that people | | | | Othello Realty, you can visit Othello Realty |
| will be too nervous to eat chicken soup at a | | | | at Feel free to reprint this article but you |
| time when the flu season is pretty | | | | must include this paragraph and all links |
| unforgiving. We rely on chicken soup to | | | | must be live and working, no changes can be |
| control flu outbreaks and this can hinder the | | | | made. |