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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:28 pm Post subject: Korean Beef Not Safe: Don't Eat! |
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The next time you are invited out for galbi or bulgogi by a Korean, politely but firmly explain to them that you can't because Korean beef is the highest risk for containing mad cow in the world.
Korean cows are not tested for mad cow disease, and their feed is not tested for containing animal products.
Korean beef is the lowest level of safety based on the WHO testing system, because NO testing is done in Korea.
This is not an issue simply because no Korean beef is exported, so it is only the health of Koreans and expats that is concerned.
For your health, say no to Korean beef. |
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matthews_world
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Haha! A load of bull*@$#??
Source? |
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IncognitoHFX
Joined: 06 May 2007
Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
| A load of bull*@$#?? |
Yes, why, yes it is! Literally! |
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bovinerebel
Joined: 27 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| matthews_world wrote: |
Haha! A load of bull*@$#??
Source? |
Actually Korean beef has a lower safety rating than American beef , because they do not test their beef to an internationally accepted standard to demonstrate its safety. Also it's more likely to be "grown" on imported grains etc than Amerian beef due to lack of grazing , again putting it at a higher risk. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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All the op said is true. Almost. Saying it has the highest rate for mad cow disease in the world is misleading. the trouble is nobody knows how safe or unsafe korean beef is because not enough testing has been done. Korea is currently increasing the amount of testing it is doing so it can get a ranking by the OIE.
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Here is your source, and it's 100% true. Korea DOES NOT TEST ENOUGH to receive a "safe" designation internationally.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7436914.stm
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| South Korea has yet to supply enough information to the World Organisation for Animal Health to allow an assessment of its own mad cow risk to be carried out. |
You'll find that quote just about 2/3rds of the way down. |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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And in case one source from the BBC isn't enough:
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1622384/
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In 2007 Korea made an application to obtain an OIE ranking for mad cow risk of its domestic herds. Rankings are based, in part, on how many cows you�ve tested over the past 7 years. You get 0.01 point for inspecting a healthy cow and up to 750 points for inspecting a sick cow. The reason why is obvious. You should get more credit for testing cows that show all the symptoms of having the disease.
The documents submitted by Korea indicated that Korea inspected only 24,172 cows for mad cow between 2001 and 2007 and earned 96,537 points. You need a minimum of 240,000 points to get a ranking. It simply wasn�t enough by international standards. They didn't even make it halfway. As a result the OIE ranked Korean beef in the third category, �undetermined risk�. Apparently last November Korea agreed to submit further documentation to bolster its application. Those documents are still pending. |
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komerican
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Korean consumption of domestic beef is down 12% from last year. So for the public, obviously, it was always primarily a health issue along with the ineptitude of a new administration and not anti-Americanism. Of course the demagogues on this site and the hysterical and repetitive expat blogs will always see it differently, quoting of course their favorite conservative newspaper, the Chosen Ilbo. See chart:
http://media.daum.net/society/affair/view.html?cateid=1010&newsid=20080624030907549&cp=hankooki |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| komerican wrote: |
Korean consumption of domestic beef is down 12% from last year. So for the public, obviously, it was always primarily a health issue along with the ineptitude of a new administration and not anti-Americanism. Of course the demagogues on this site and the hysterical and repetitive expat blogs will always see it differently, quoting of course their favorite conservative newspaper, the Chosen Ilbo. See chart:
http://media.daum.net/society/affair/view.html?cateid=1010&newsid=20080624030907549&cp=hankooki |
You think we need to quote a newspaper to prove what we see around us every day?
Would you like to see more photos of Koreans with anti-US signs protesting the USA? It's not like we haven't seen tons of them. There are still several hanging up around my university.
Apologist. |
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komerican
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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| bassexpander wrote: |
| komerican wrote: |
Korean consumption of domestic beef is down 12% from last year. So for the public, obviously, it was always primarily a health issue along with the ineptitude of a new administration and not anti-Americanism. Of course the demagogues on this site and the hysterical and repetitive expat blogs will always see it differently, quoting of course their favorite conservative newspaper, the Chosen Ilbo. See chart:
http://media.daum.net/society/affair/view.html?cateid=1010&newsid=20080624030907549&cp=hankooki |
You think we need to quote a newspaper to prove what we see around us every day?
Apologist. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:21 pm Post subject: |
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Of course it's unsafe-it's Korean, and therefore suspect at least, but usually inferior.
Don't worry about hurting tards' feelings; they need to grow up. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| always primarily a health issue |
If Koreans care about health so much why don't they:
a) stop chain smoking in bars and restaurants like pathetic addicts
b) stop chugging soju till they can't walk
c) stop covering the streets in spit, urine and faeces
d) stop covering the streets in uncollected, rotting trash
e) stop living in Seoul, the city with the worst air in the world
f) stop driving like idiots with their headights off
g) start using seatbelts
h) stop running red lights
i) stop driving motorcycles on the sidewalk
j) start putting soap, hot water and hand dryers in public bathrooms
k) stop spitting on the floor inside public buildings like a bunch of moronic people who've never heard of TB
l) stop spitting in ashtrays in crowded restaurants
m) stop preparing food in unsanitary, filthy kitchens where the staff spit on the floor, and wash their hands and dishes (if at all) in cold water without soap
n) stop beating the hell out of their students in public schools with sticks and punching 12 year old girls in the face
o) stop beating their wives in public
p) ajumas, stop beating your kids in public too
q) stop violent hazing in universities
r) stop your military officers from raping their conscripts and forcing them to eat human waste
s) stop barebacking 60 guys a day in red light districts
t) install some damn sidewalks
u) stop living in cockroach ridden hovels
v) install indoor plumbing
w) stop driving their scooter with three kids, a dog, and a carton of ramyon while talking on the phone and smoking
x) stop covering the beaches, mountains and countryside with trash
y) stop eating so much flippin sugar in EVERYTHING
z) stop screaming at each other on the street from loudspeakers selling fish, fruit, onions, aircons and, well, the Doume girls if you have enough money
Oh, I could go on.
So, um. Something (cars) that kills 17 Koreans every day...nobody cares.
Something that has never killed anyone (In North America, at least. And don't start telling me that Koreans have even heard of BSE cases in England. They don't even know where England is.) ....better go down to City Hall.
Health. Safety. Korea.
Which one of the above does not fit?
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Lekker
Joined: 09 Feb 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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Oh my god, you're not a troll, you're a GOBLIN!
How dare you incite such a catastrophe! |
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komerican
Joined: 17 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
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| always primarily a health issue |
If Koreans care about health so much why don't they:
a) stop chain smoking in bars and restaurants like pathetic addicts
b) stop chugging soju till they can't walk
c) stop covering the streets in spit, urine and faeces
d) stop covering the streets in uncollected, rotting trash
e) stop living in Seoul, the city with the worst air in the world
f) stop driving like idiots with their headights off
g) start using seatbelts
h) stop running red lights
i) stop driving motorcycles on the sidewalk
j) start putting soap, hot water and hand dryers in public bathrooms
k) stop spitting on the floor inside public buildings like a bunch of moronic people who've never heard of TB
l) stop spitting in ashtrays in crowded restaurants
m) stop preparing food in unsanitary, filthy kitchens where the staff spit on the floor, and wash their hands and dishes (if at all) in cold water without soap
n) stop beating the hell out of their students in public schools with sticks and punching 12 year old girls in the face
o) stop beating their wives in public
p) ajumas, stop beating your kids in public too
q) stop violent hazing in universities
r) stop your military officers from raping their conscripts and forcing them to eat human waste
s) stop barebacking 60 guys a day in red light districts
t) install some damn sidewalks
u) stop living in cockroach ridden hovels
v) install indoor plumbing
w) stop driving their scooter with three kids, a dog, and a carton of ramyon while talking on the phone and smoking
x) stop covering the beaches, mountains and countryside with trash
y) stop eating so much flippin sugar in EVERYTHING
z) stop screaming at each other on the street from loudspeakers selling fish, fruit, onions, aircons and, well, the Doume girls if you have enough money
Oh, I could go on.
So, um. Something (cars) that kills 17 Koreans every day...nobody cares.
Something that has never killed anyone (In North America, at least. And don't start telling me that Koreans have even heard of BSE cases in England. They don't even know where England is.) ....better go down to City Hall.
Health. Safety. Korea.
Which one of the above does not fit? |
Pyongshin Sangja, Your examples are irrelevant to the issue at hand since this is about sovereign rights. Also, the examples you cite already have stringent regulations. Are you saying that we shouldn't have seat belt laws because some people ignore them?
Also, many of the examples you cite involve voluntary acts whereas in the case of beef it will be very difficult to monitor where it will all go hence the risk that exposure can occur no matter how careful you are.
If people were told that one in a million hyundais would explode on you, not just break down, but explode, would people buy Hyundais? It doesn't matter whether the odds are so low of getting hit with this disease since at the end of the day it's the customer�s prerogative to choose what he wants and the government's duty to reflect that standard.
If Koreans are being so unreasonable then why did the US ban Canadian beef for two years and Canadian beef over 30 months for about 5 years? Don't you think it's odd that the US Cattlemen's Association described the recent opening of the US market to Canadian beef and live cattle as "dangerous" but then this same organization says that US beef is safe when it now has that same Canadian beef? Don't you think that might raise concerns in other people? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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What next? Are you going to say you can't meet Americans because they aren't tested for smallpox?
What an idiotic post. |
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