I can understand why people might feel strongly one way or the other about a free trade agreement, but beef imports?

Who the fark gives a shiat about beef imports?

Why did we send a mad cow to speak to Korea?

Two Dogs Farking: Churchill2004: Who the fark gives a shiat about beef imports?

Are you really telling me people are getting up and marching in the streets because of a mad cow outbreak a few years ago on the other side of the planet?

I call Bulgogi!

Churchill2004: Are you really telling me people are getting up and marching in the streets because of a mad cow outbreak a few years ago on the other side of the planet?

Yep, that's exactly what they're doing.
And I seem to have dropped this:

The problem is that during this whole Korean trip thing -she had a little beef stuck in her teeth.

I prefer Long Pork myself... tastes like chicken.

They are complaining about getting Beef and Rice?

There is no satisfying these people!

Damn, I didn't even know the South Koreans had strained relations with us.

Anyone have an updated scorecard of the countries that have strained relations with us? Alternately, it might be easier to list the countries that still like us. There are some countries that still like us, right? I mean countries that like us that we don't have to pay them to say they like us, right? Because that would just be wrong.

Random Reality Check: Damn, I didn't even know the South Koreans had strained relations with us.


They don't, really. This is like the softwood lumber thing with Canada, every nation has its trade disputes with every other nation. Hell, most of them have trade disputes between the government and businesses within the same country. If that counted as strained relations, then the phrase would lose all meaning (as if it hadn't already).

The beef thing is just the straw that broke the camel's back. With Shrub being now friendly with North Korea, and the fact that the first thing the new leader of South Korea did was pretty much get down on his knees and start pleasuring Bush. The fact that we want to now send uninspected beef to South Korea when we have had a mad cow outbreak in the past finally ticked them off enough to take action.

So that headline wasn't intentional? Because I LOLed.

America's chief diplomat found herself vouching for the purity of U.S. cattle

They're all virgins. The USDA even prevented them from being tested for mad cow, God bless 'em, so they're innocent too. Look at those doe eyes, those languid lashes. An impure thought would never enter their heads.

Marcus Aurelius: America's chief diplomat found herself vouching for the purity of U.S. cattle

They're all virgins. The USDA even prevented them from being tested for mad cow, God bless 'em, so they're innocent too. Look at those doe eyes, those languid lashes. An impure thought would never enter their heads.

Don't kid yourself, any slut worth their weight in suet would say just exactly that.

Between a the ever present strain of Korean nationalism and the dumb-ass nature of the USDA's 'business decisions', they found a good reason to oppose foreign beef.

/Domestic beef and foreign beef were sold on different meat counters across the room from each other.
//Don't get between a Korean and their table of food.

I know a couple of Koreans to whom I would like to give some beef. Meat. Beefy McMeat.

These protests have been going on for over a week. They look silly on the international news, like a whole country infested with precious little snowflakes. I say we withdraw and unleash the North Koreans on them because these people need a beatin'.

in seoul right now actually.
and some of the huge protests are absurd.
they really are passionate about their meat here.
a lot of the protests i've seen have been primarily made up of old ladies...so i'm not sure if that says something about a 'vocal minority'



/they also like their rice



/getting a kick, etc. etc.

It's really about mad cow disease. America refuses to take any action to reassure its customers that there is nothing to fear. Instead it tries to strongarm them into buying.

Same thing. with GM food. European consumers say "We don't want GM food thanks." What's the reactionof the American farm lobby?

"Our customers are idiots! The government should force them to buy our stuff whether they want it or not!"

LOL

dogged.

Churchill2004: I can understand why people might feel strongly one way or the other about a free trade agreement, but beef imports?

Who the fark gives a shiat about beef imports?

It's the fact that most of the meat is untested for mad cow disease. In fact it's illegal in the U.S. for individual cattle raisers to test their stock for the disease. Which is why other countries have some concern about the safety of our beef exports.

GoGoGo,
in seoul right now actually.
and some of the huge protests are absurd.
they really are passionate about their meat here.
a lot of the protests i've seen have been primarily made up of old ladies...so i'm not sure if that says something about a 'vocal minority'

Adjumanees* have been the driving force for most of Korea's stupid laws, just like the old south and the bible belt in the U.S.

*Female korean senior citizens, maybe with a particularly unelegant demographic feel.

/Why not BallieBallie as your alt?

Churchill2004: I can understand why people might feel strongly one way or the other about a free trade agreement, but beef imports?

I had a rejected headline about this a few weeks back:
(BBC) Think American politics have become hyper partisan? South Korea's entire cabinet offers to resign after a deal to resume US beef imports

Seriously, the entire cabinet offered to resign? Over beef imports?

kabloink: Churchill2004: I can understand why people might feel strongly one way or the other about a free trade agreement, but beef imports?

Who the fark gives a shiat about beef imports?

It's the fact that most of the meat is untested for mad cow disease. In fact it's illegal in the U.S. for individual cattle raisers to test their stock for the disease. Which is why other countries have some concern about the safety of our beef exports.

They don't need to worry about mad cow until they have proof it's over here. Like say if a prominent person, a celebrity or politician maybe, from a beef-exporting state, like, say, Texas or maybe Wyoming, were to start acting all crazy and stuff, flipping out and cursing out someone in the hallowed halls of the Senate (for example), or talking like they have a severe speech impediment. When that happens, they can worry.

I can kinda see why people would get upset...eatin' mad cow meat gives you nasty-ass brain damage...and it's not something for which there's a cure.

the headline was all class.

+1.

Korag_The_Nasty: I came across a YouTube video by some S. Korean that showed a violent protest about US Beef. I simply commented "Look, our beef is safe. Relax.", and his replies went absolutely ballistic! He spewed a bunch of drivel at me and called me a Bush drone (obviously proving that he doesn't know me AT ALL).

It's like they have taken it hook/line/sinker that if it's American, it's evil.

So fark 'em. More Omaha Steaks for Japan & China, I guess.

Because the customer isn't always right?
Is that what you're saying.

We aren't the world's only beef producer, you know. Brazil could take our market very easily if we let them.

Look, if the US wants to sell beef to Korea, they should probably do more than just making soothing noises. The customer is always right. Trying to sell US beef to the South Koreans without changing anything is like trying to sell Haraam food to a Muslim target market. It doesn't matter how much you shout at them, they aren't going to buy it.

Overhaul the US beef system, come up with changes that will convince the South Korean public that US beef is safe. Or stop trying to sell beef to South Korea.

Crever subby verry verry CREVER!

Well gal bi damned.

EbolaNYC: Crever subby verry verry CREVER!

That's wacist.

Korag_The_Nasty I came across a YouTube video by some S. Korean that showed a violent protest about US Beef. I simply commented "Look, our beef is safe. Relax.", and his replies went absolutely ballistic! He spewed a bunch of drivel at me and called me a Bush drone (obviously proving that he doesn't know me AT ALL).


Who cares what the fark you have to say. You don't deserve to talk unless you consume US beef exports yourself.

Until you petition Congress to allow McDonalds to feed you the same aged cows considered by the FDA unfit for US consumption but fit for export, then you need to let foreign consumers choose what they want to buy.

Of course the FDA has finally relented to put a cap on the maximum age of cows we can export to other countries just a few weeks ago anyway, and since that will probably settle much of the dispute then the issue is moot in due time.

Our soldiers over there deserve tasty American beef, and to save transportation costs we can move all of them back to the states.

Then, after Korea reunifies, those in the North will be clamoring for beef. Well, okay, those in the South might be clamoring for rice -- as well as building materials to rebuild Seoul -- but we can export that, too.

Snarfangel: Then, after Korea reunifies, those in the North will be clamoring for beef. Well, okay, those in the South might be clamoring for rice -- as well as building materials to rebuild Seoul -- but we can export that, too.

And wouldn't we look like the rubes id the two Koreas reunify and they don't want our help because everything went incredibly well.

Hell, it's only been 60 years and trillion of dollars, right?

Just came to say I found the following from TFA chuckle inducing; considering this is occuring in Korea.

"Rice go home," they chanted. Placards said, "Stop Rice and Mad Cow,

Without that Rice and Mad Cow, however will they make my Mongolian Beef?

/got nothing

helix400:Seriously, the entire cabinet offered to resign? Over beef imports?

At their heights the anti-beef protests had 80,000 people in the street and at the same time the truckers and port workers were striking - so offering to resign was a good way to try and save some face with all hell breaking loose.

Fine. If they ban out beef imports, we ban their car/cell phone/air conditioner/flat panel monitor imports.

Asians for some reason have equated Rice with Mad Cow for years now. Remember reading a Japanese comic, and a central character wanted beef bowl, but restrictions had been made. Then a cartoon Rice came out and taunted him. No kidding.

now that was a classy headline

Doesn't worry about bad beef.