Court Orders MBC to Air Correction on US Beef Risk
A Seoul court Thursday found an influential MBC program on U.S. beef health risks "wrong" and ordered the major broadcaster to air a correction.
"PD Notebook should broadcast a correction about its wrong piece on mad cow disease," Judge Kim Sung-gon of the Seoul Southern District Court was quoted as saying in his verdict.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries filed a suit against the popular MBC current affairs program, PD Notebook, arguing its April report intentionally distorted facts related to U.S. beef to exaggerate the risk of mad cow disease.
After the report aired, tens of thousands took to the streets against an agreement Seoul, Washington had signed earlier in April to unconditionally resume U.S. beef imports. Link
There was so much mis-information being intentionally distributed in Korea about the beef that would be imported from the US that it caused rioting in the streets and nearly took down a government. Since then the rioting has stopped and the truth is finally being heard. Hopefully this correction will help restore some of the credibility that was wrongly taken from the US beef industry.
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US Beef is Safe
Agriculture secretary says U.S. beef is safe
SAN ANTONIO — Amid massive protests in South Korea over the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Tuesday that the meat is safe.
"Every single carcass that's processed is inspected by a USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) inspector," Schafer said. "That beef is stamped A-OK, and we want to certainly assure our consumers here in the United States, as well as our consumers outside of the U.S. in foreign countries, that we provide a good, clean, safe, abundant food supply here." Read More
It has been pretty amazing to see how violent some of the protests have been in South Korea over the soon to be resumed importation of US beef. Secretary Schafer said it all when he stated that we provide the safest food supply in the world. Our livelihood depends on us doing so and each and every one of us in food production has an obligation to do nothing less.
SAN ANTONIO — Amid massive protests in South Korea over the planned resumption of U.S. beef imports, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said Tuesday that the meat is safe.
"Every single carcass that's processed is inspected by a USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture) inspector," Schafer said. "That beef is stamped A-OK, and we want to certainly assure our consumers here in the United States, as well as our consumers outside of the U.S. in foreign countries, that we provide a good, clean, safe, abundant food supply here." Read More
It has been pretty amazing to see how violent some of the protests have been in South Korea over the soon to be resumed importation of US beef. Secretary Schafer said it all when he stated that we provide the safest food supply in the world. Our livelihood depends on us doing so and each and every one of us in food production has an obligation to do nothing less.
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