Beef, a meat kind yelling for appreciation

What do you think we Belgians ate on Sundays during the golden sixties and somewhat later until the late nineties? If it wasn't chicken with salad and fried potatoes, one on x times it was steak with ditto greens and starch product or other. On a certain day general panic seized the population: an extremely harmful illness had arised from the consummation of beefsteak.