Fear of diseases, competition drive global concerns of U.S. beef - (Kansas City Star)
June 14, 2008 – 6:59 pmBeyond Korea, Japan seems, according to this story, stuck on a not-so-merry-go-round of on-again-off-again bans on Yankee beef.
Europeans effectively quit American beef a decade ago over concerns about hormones. They still look at genetically modified Midwestern grain with disdain.
Russia and China regularly reject American chicken. Even as Asia gobbles up ever more U.S. pork, governments there prohibit meat raised with a common American pig feed supplement. Mexico and Australia routinely threaten to shut out American meat.
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