US agrees to postpone duty hikes in beef hormone row: EU
19 hours ago
BRUSSELS (AFP) — Washington agreed Wednesday to postpone for two weeks introducing additional duties on a number of EU products in a long-running row over beef hormones, the European Commission said Wednesday.
The new duties, including a crippling 300-percent import duty on France's Roquefort cheese, were supposed to take effect on Thursday, but the two sides agreed instead to seek a negotiated solution.
The EU has had a ban on hormone-treated beef in place since the early 1980s which has long been a source of trade disputes with partners such as the United States and Canada.
The World Trade Organization in 1998 ruled that the EU had violated trade rules by banning the hormone-treated beef, thereby allowing the United States and Canada to impose trade sanctions on the bloc. Read More
The EU doesn’t want our beef because of the estrogen implant we use to increase efficiency. What the news media never tells you is that even conventionally raised beef has less estrogen in it than most other foods. Take for example cabbage, it has over 1000 times more naturally occurring estrogen in it than in beef. And after several decades of use, it’s safety has been proven.
Showing posts with label US beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US beef. Show all posts
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Friday, August 1, 2008
Korean Consumers Lied To
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.
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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