Korean housewives reject U.S. beef

Calcutta News.Net
Tuesday 12th June, 2007

A group of South Korean housewives will start monitoring sales of U.S. beef amid a campaign to get the government to halt recently resumed American beef imports.

South Korea shut its doors to American beef in December 2003 after a mad cow disease outbreak in the U.S.

It was partially reopened last year when South Korea agreed to import only boneless meat from cattle under 30 months old. .

Housewives throughout the country will routinely check stores to note whether U.S. beef is being sold.

The housewives will also launch campaigns to raise people's awareness of the risk of mad cow disease, and will demand the government halt meat imports.

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