Posted on 06/01/2008 2:50:26 AM PDT by steelboy
Tens of thousands of South Koreans rallied Saturday night against a government decision to import U.S. beef in the largest demonstration in a month of almost daily protests. ADVERTISEMENT
A crowd estimated by police at 38,000 people filled a plaza in front of city hall. Protesters lit candles, waved placards and chanted slogans criticizing President Lee Myung-bak.
South Korea agreed in April to reopen what was formerly the third-largest overseas market for U.S. beef. It had been shut for most of the past 4 1/2 years following the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in a Canadian-born cow in Washington state in 2003.
That deal, coupled with some sensational media reports, sparked fears of mad cow disease and triggered protests calling for scrapping or renegotiating the agreement.
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Okay...
Lets band all Hyundai imports because somebody crashed in one and died...
Well... Let’s not “band” them, lets ban them...
Ok, so why don’t they just... not buy the beef?
Ir appears the S. Koreans have the same kind of insanity that eco-freaks do. For 4 1/2 years, millions of Americans have been eating American beef-—yet not one case of “mad cow disease” in humans has happened (well, with the exceptions of Jonathon Wright and Michael Pflegler). One would THINK that that data would be indicative that American beef is “safe enough”.
38,000 people who don’t have anything more important to do?
Say what you want, ChiCom. At least, the misguided South Koreans (who are a minority in that country) are not sending missiles and bombs to terrorists in Iran and Iraq (as China is doing) or threatening their neighbors.
the american meat inspection system isn’t the best.
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