Bones Found in US Beef Again
Here we go yet again:
South Korea said Tuesday it found bones, banned because as a mad cow disease prevention, in the latest shipment of American beef and will revoke import approval for JSP Swift’s plant in Grand Island, the U.S. packing plant that processed it.
The packing plant was already suspended from shipping meat to South Korea since July, said JSP Swift spokesman Marco Sampaio. The latest shipment was sent before the Grand Island was suspended for a similar violation in July […]
South Korea’s Agriculture and Forestry Ministry said rib bones were found Monday in one box of a 15.5-ton shipment that arrived in South Korea on Aug. 10.
The ministry said it will send the entire shipment back to the United States. [Journal Star]
At this rate there won’t be any meat packing companies left in the US to ship beef to South Korea.
Hyundai is going on strick…why can't we on there cars…"Oil Leaks."
I'd like to see the U.S. start inspecting Korean imports to the same degree.
There has to be someone sympathetic to Korean Beef farmers in the inspection process or close to it who is effecting these results. Either that or all these American meat packing companies are just stupid.
I don't know much about the meat market but don't the Koreans serve meat on the bones all the time? Especially rib bones?
GIKorea,
You said: "At this rate there won’t be any meat packing companies left in the US to ship beef to South Korea."
That is exactly what the Korean government wants!
Tim in Angeles sendzzzzzzzzzz
Yes Koreans eat meat on the bone all the time. The claim is that US bones have mad cow disease in it and Koreans will die if they eat the bones. This is totally ridiculous because lots of Koreans are eating US beef now through the black market and no one just like in the US has ever gotten mad cow disease from US beef.
This is all a governmental ploy to protect the Korean beef industry and they do it because they know they can get away with it. Until someone in the US government does something about it, like targeting Korean imports, US beef will continued to be treated the way it is currently being treated.
This is all another reason why the US should not have a free trade agreement with Korea because they cannot be trusted to keep up their side of the bargain.
Not many people died during the mad cow hysteria. The same for the e coli "outbreak" from tainted spinach.
Yet even in LA some Korean sullung tang places had to come up with non beef dishes because of the hysteria.
China would have thumped Korea on the head hard and in full public view by now…..
…and Korea would have whimpered away (and felt happy about the killing they were making by doing other business with China)….
Sometimes, the United States looks like a complete idiot who can't get anything through its thick skull…..
Mad Cow or no Mad Cow, because I'm not going to argue whether that exists, but is it too much to ask to send meat without back bones?
300 million Americans are the beef eating champions of the world and Mad Cow disease has killed exaclty 0 of them in the past two years. Clearly this is an epidemic that will only end when all Americans are euthanized.
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"Only five human deaths resulting from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of BSE, were reported worldwide in 2005. All of them were in the United Kingdom – the country most affected by the disease – where nine vCJD deaths were registered in 2004 and 18 in 2003."
Agree with Tom.
I'm not expert on beefs so someone correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't be easier if USA sends beefs without bones?
“Bones Found in US Beef Again”
Dammit, Jim. He's a doctor, not a butcher.
Complaints about little bits of bones in beef is kinda odd coming from people who have no problem eating chicken that appears to have been run through a chipper shredder.
So, the real question becomes…
…are the Korean inspectors being picky or dishonest…
…or are the American beef companies all screwed up?
I would like to believe the first… but the silence of the American government (currently run by a Texan) which is usually very supportive of the beef industry… is deafening.
What does it all mean?
J!
As I have shown before in the past some of the beef with bones in it were boxes clearly marked for US consumption that some how got mixed with the boxes shipped to Korea.
http://rokdrop.com/2007/08/04/us-beefed-banned-ag…
At least in one case four boxes given to a Korean company in LA some how ended up in the shipment to Korea.
Draw your own conclusions.
Or another possiblity that no one thought of because of bias.
American beef packers are deliberately packing in big bones (we're not talking about little bits of bones here, we're talking big back bones) because they know very well how Koreans will react – stopping shipments of beef entirely. Which will pressure the US government to pressure the Korean government to end restrictions on bone. And then to sabotage the FTA with Korea.
This is the real likely cause why the Americans can't seem to follow simple instructions like no bones on shipments. They don't want to export beef to Korea. They want to make a political point.
I read Tom's reply over and over, and I still don't get it.
US beef exporters deliberately stop shipments because they don't want to sell beef in Korea, and want to sabotage the FTA? Are you serious?