SUMMARY:
Condoleezza Rice visited South Korea, and while she was there, she had to answer a lot of questions about the safety of American beef.
Secretary of State Rice was in Seoul after North Korea destroyed a cooling tower in its major nuclear plant, but the issue of beef safety overshadowed North Korean nuclear issue.
According to the article, "For many South Koreans, who have lived with threats from their neighbor for five decades, the nuclear issue is of less concern than in Seoul's agreement to lift a ban on American beef imports in April."
The article also mentioned that there were large demonstrations and rallies in the streets of Seoul, "to voice fears about possible health risks such as mad cow disease." The demonstrators were chanting: "Rice, Go Home!" and "We don't need U.S. troops! We don't need mad cows!"
On Saturday (June 28), about 15000 people held another rally in Seoul, and some of them clashed with police. Police said they arrested more than 50 people.
The article says that U.S. beef was banned for about 4.5 years (until April this year), when in 2003 mad cow disease was discovered in the U.S.
MY OPINION:
I think American beef is probably not the best beef, especially because the American beef industry uses a lot of hormones and drugs on the cattle. Using so many drugs and hormones cannot be very good for the health of the cattle, and also it cannot be very healthy for the consumers of American beef. So, even if there is no mad cow disease in a particular cow, it can still cause a lot of other health problems. So, I think the Korean people are right to be angry about American beef getting into their food supply.
2 comments:
think it'S really big problrme not only between U.S.A and Korea because Recently, American beef hasn't had confidence in Japan. Maybe 2 years ago, there was a big problem of American beef in Japan. Japanese goverment found the beef whuch has risk of mad cow disease, so Japanese people didn't want to buy American beef; moreover Japanese goverment decided to not to import all of American beef. Last year Japanese goverment dicided to resume to import it, however many Japanese customers stll don't trust the beef. Un my opinion American goverment must think they gain theconfidence for Asian countries. I think the problem will be not only Asia but also any other countries; in adittion American enconomy Will be gotton the big knock.
I think it's a big problem for Korean. But it is not only for korea, also the countries buy meet from U.S.A.
Few years ago, Japan had same promlem as Korea.however we have beef from the U.S.
Why?
because they said to buy there beef, or ther are not going to portect us anymore.
that's why my goverment decided to buy.
In Korean case, however, they have army that they can protect their country themselves. So, if they don't want to buy american beef,say "NO"
American beef is not safe and good for health because they use lots of medicens as Reza mentioned.
American enconomy will get a big hits from Korea, but it is good for them that they are not the best country in the world.
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