Koreans fear mad cow in meat from U.S.

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Then don't eat meat, duh. Seoul - To street protesters in the South Korean capital, Americanbeef is a menace to be feared, and stopped.Shin Hae-suk, a 54-year-old housewife, is convinced that if SouthKorea resumes importing US beef, the US will send South Koreans meatat higher risk of mad cow disease. "What if my child eats dangerousbeef in a restaurant?" she asked.Shin's views on American beef, which South Korea banned in 2003 afterthe first US case of mad cow disease was discovered in Washingtonstate, may seem odd to Americans, who wolf down steaks and hamburgersproduced from domestic cows.But in Seoul, such anxieties have spurred near daily street ralliesthat have humbled South Korea's new president and forced hisgovernment to delay carrying out a deal with the US to resume imports.Fears have been fanned largely by a sensational television

report lastmonth and Internet chatter about the meat, which both governments haverepeatedly said poses no health risk. Rumors have circulated that USmeat packers plan to dump beef from older cows, considered at higherrisk for mad cow, on the South Korean market.-- full story:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-05/29/content_6718940.htm http://pets.Fortheanimals7/join http://www.myspace.com/fortheanimals7