Cervelat was covered closely by the Swiss media and in a newspaper poll, 72% of those surveyed said the ""cervelas", as they knew it, had to be saved." The cervelat crisis was brought up in a parliamentary debate wherein state councillor and president of the Swiss Meat Association, Rolf Büttiker, spoke of the national sausage's social significance, calling it a "cult sausage" and "the worker's steak". The Swiss government entered into negotiations with the EU to seek an exception for zebu intestines, and Swiss scientists were sent to Brazil hoping to show that the intestines posed no risk of transmitting mad
Criticism of Dish Network impossible to meet in order to take our negotiations public and likely force our programming off the air.” In October 2005, OLN (later Versus, now NBC Sports Network) became the new cable home for the NHL. Comcast, owners of OLN at the time, was demanding a pay raise from Dish. Dish refused, and pulled the network on October 21, 2005, sparking a six-month carriage dispute, which finally ended on April 24, 2006, the same day OLN had announced that it was going to relaunch as "Versus" in September of that year. On August 4, 2009, Dish Network sued ESPN for