Do government actions speak louder than words?

Do government actions speak louder than words?: "A few years ago, John and I along with colleagues at the University of Delaware (George Parsons), the University of Maryland (Doug Lipton) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (Jim Kirkley) found that Mid-Atlantic consumers are willing to pay significant amounts of money--up to $2.8 billion annually--to ensure that seafood meals were safe from outbreaks of Pfiesteria Piscicida*--a toxic dinoflagellate that attacks fish in warm brackish waters. The catch? There is no scientific evidence that Pfiesteria consumed through seafood has any adverse health effects on humans.

While not exactly the same, this sort of reminds me of one of the economic problems with the bird flu.

From Reuters:



Slowly but surely, chicken and eggs are returning to dinner tables and restaurant menus after a bird flu outbreak last month in a western town scared millions of Indians off poultry and cost the industry more than $120 million.

Authorities said last week that the H5N1 avian flu infection among poultry in Navapur, Maharashtra state, had been contained and no human cases had been reported in the country.

Since then many Indians have returned to chicken curry and 'tikka,' chunks of chicken marinated in spices and cooked over burning coal.

Like Sanjay Singh, a pharmaceutical executive in his thirties, who -- like millions o"