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Asia Pacific
AUSTRALIA: Bindaree Beef calls for public debate on beef labeling
Bindaree Beef, one of the largest beef processors in Australia, is hoping to stir up a public dialogue on beef labeling in a bid to reverse the downward trend in consumption.
Japanese packer abandons plans for Oregon hog farm
Masami Foods, which since 1992 has owned and operated an Oregon slaughterhouse that processes 100,000 hogs per year, has abandoned plans to raise up to 11,000 hogs on a 930 acre site eight miles south of Bonanza, Ore.
Japan Changes Labeling Laws
Japanese agriculture and health ministries simplify labeling laws to produce a single label.
Beef labeling debate continues
One of Australia’s biggest beef processors is calling for a public debate on beef labeling, claiming not enough is being done to halt the decline in beef consumption.
Krishnas have beef with meat ad
New Zealand Hare Krishna devotees are demanding a television advertisement for meat be taken off the air because they say it ridicules their religion.
Gone are the days of chewy beef
Scientists in Australia claim that more tender beef is just around the corner, a move that will make the processing of beef products easier as well as providing a boon to the consumer market.
Americas
EU suspends Paraguay beef imports over health
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The European Union has suspended imports of Paraguayan beef for a year for failing health requirements, cutting off the South American nation's last major beef export market, the government said Thursday.
Cuba says US now big trade partner despite embargo
HAVANA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A senior Cuban trade official said on Wednesday the United States had become about the 10th-largest trading partner of communist-run Cuba despite Washington's 40-year-old trade embargo against the Caribbean island.
USA
Tyson introduces retail beef and pork cuts on West Coast
Springdale, Ark.-based Tyson Foods has introduced a broad selection of individually frozen, ready-to-cook beef and pork cuts in supermarkets in California, Washington and Oregon. The new products come in easy-open resalable packages.
Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman Regarding WTO Chairman Stuart Harbinson’s Paper on Agriculture
"The U.S. has proposed a bold and aggressive approach to level the playing field for U.S. farmers and ranchers. We have serious concerns that Harbinson's paper lacks harmonization and equity in both the market access and domestic support areas. In addition, the low level of ambition reflected in the approach to market access falls far short of the Doha Mandate, which calls for substantial improvements in market access. The perpetuation of inequities regarding the allowed levels of trade-distorting domestic support is particularly problematic