Asia PacificSouth Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With U.S.Tens of tho...

Asia Pacific
South Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With U.S.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the rain-drenched center of the South Korean capital today, protesting a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea that negotiators are working on this week in a Seoul hotel.

Korean delays aid Australian beef industry
Continuing delays in reopening the South Korean market to U.S. beef will aid the Australian beef industry as Korea heads into its peak beef-consumption period, said a Meat and Livestock Australia spokesman, quoted in The Weekly Times.

Europe
Fight blazes over hormone ban
Beef producers in Wales have criticized moves that could allow beef from hormone-treated cattle onto the European market.

FMD Disease outbreak costs in dispute
More than 10,000 farms from the Scottish Borders to the south-west of England were affected in the cull of livestock that followed the foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2001 - the worst outbreak the world has ever seen.

Africa
Food is the icing on Madagascar's tourist cake
Most tourists come to Madagascar for its unique wildlife, but the big island off the east coast of Africa has another little-known attraction: food.

United States
Argentina and asado (beef barbecue): synonymous?
Not only in Miami but also everywhere in Argentina — with the exception of cosmopolitan Buenos Aires — it seems that nation's cuisine consists of grilled beef, more grilled beef, the occasional pizza (often grilled, on the same parrilla as the beef), and then back to the grilled beef.

NPPC Urges Congress To Pass PNTR For Vietnam
Pointing out that pork represents 72 percent of the meat consumed by Vietnam’s 84 million people, the National Pork Producers Council in testimony urged Congress to approve permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) for the Southeast Asian nation, a move that would let U.S. pork producers increase exports to the country.

Beef Quality Audit released
Initial results from National Beef Audit 2005, funded in part by checkoff investments in the Beef Quality Assurance Program, are in and offer U.S. cattlemen insight into beef quality successes and future challenges over which they have some or all control.

Asia Pacific
South Koreans Rally Against Free Trade Pact With U.S.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the rain-drenched center of the South Korean capital today, protesting a proposed free trade agreement between the United States and South Korea that negotiators are working on this week in a Seoul hotel.

Korean delays aid Australian beef industry
Continuing delays in reopening the South Korean market to U.S. beef will aid the Australian beef industry as Korea heads into its peak beef-consumption period, said a Meat and Livestock Australia spokesman, quoted in The Weekly Times.

Europe
Fight blazes over hormone ban
Beef producers in Wales have criticized moves that could allow beef from hormone-treated cattle onto the European market.

FMD Disease outbreak costs in dispute
More than 10,000 farms from the Scottish Borders to the south-west of England were affected in the cull of livestock that followed the foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2001 - the worst outbreak the world has ever seen.

Africa
Food is the icing on Madagascar's tourist cake
Most tourists come to Madagascar for its unique wildlife, but the big island off the east coast of Africa has another little-known attraction: food.

United States
Argentina and asado (beef barbecue): synonymous?
Not only in Miami but also everywhere in Argentina — with the exception of cosmopolitan Buenos Aires — it seems that nation's cuisine consists of grilled beef, more grilled beef, the occasional pizza (often grilled, on the same parrilla as the beef), and then back to the grilled beef.

NPPC Urges Congress To Pass PNTR For Vietnam
Pointing out that pork represents 72 percent of the meat consumed by Vietnam’s 84 million people, the National Pork Producers Council in testimony urged Congress to approve permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) for the Southeast Asian nation, a move that would let U.S. pork producers increase exports to the country.

Beef Quality Audit released
Initial results from National Beef Audit 2005, funded in part by checkoff investments in the Beef Quality Assurance Program, are in and offer U.S. cattlemen insight into beef quality successes and future challenges over which they have some or all control.