US BEEF HITTING SOUTH KOREAN SHELVES (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 Finance) Regulations / Law U.S. beef is starting to hit South Korean shelves and restaurants after the first shipments cleared quarantine inspections in late April, government and industry sources said Wednesday. [News Source]

Us Beef Hitting South Korean Shelves (Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News) U.S. beef is starting to hit South Korean shelves and restaurants after the first shipments cleared quarantine inspections in late April, government and industry sources said Wednesday. [News Source]

USDA will fight ruling on cattle test (The Record) The United States Department of Agriculture said last week that it does not support widespread testing of cattle for mad cow disease and will fight a recent court ruling that would force it to allow such tests, according to The Associated Press. [News Source]

South Korean housewives launch campaign to stop U.S. beef (Lincoln Journal Star) SEOUL, South Korea — A group of South Korean housewives said Tuesday it will start a campaign to get the government to halt recently resumed American beef imports. [News Source]

The Prairie Star (Prairie Star) Here we go again. The animal rights activists have found themselves another issue from which they can strip all common sense and insert emotion to save another “endangered” species. [News Source]

S. Korean housewives monitor U.S. beef. A group of South Korean housewives said Tuesday it will start monitoring sales of U.S. beef amid a campaign to get the government to halt recently resumed American beef imports. [News Source]

Humane Society of US again scaring people away from good diets? (AG Weekly) The Humane Society of the U.S. has, for years, been trying to frighten people away from consuming meat, milk and eggs -- but its recent testimony before a congressional committee reached a new low when the HSUS president, Wayne Pacelle, made the unsupported claim that pigs could be harboring the infamous and deadly British ‘mad cow” disease. [News Source]

NMPF opposes opening Canadian border to breeding animals (AG Weekly) ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Milk Producers Federation, in comments submitted Friday (March 9) to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is opposing the resumption of cattle exports from Canada for breeding or herd replacement purposes. [News Source]

S. Korea, U.S. reach trade agreement, biggest for U.S. since NAFTA (AG Weekly) SEOUL, South Korea — The United States reached its biggest free trade agreement since NAFTA on Monday, clinching a last-minute deal with close security ally South Korea that it hopes will bolster bilateral ties and provide added spark to the Doha Round of global trade talks. [News Source]

Japan ready to begin talks on easing of U.S. beef import limits (Kyodo via Yahoo! Asia News) _ Japan intends to begin negotiations with the United States shortly to ease its restrictions on U.S. beef imports in the wake of an international animal health organization's recent decision to allow exports of American beef irrespective of cattle age, Japanese government sources said Tuesday. [News Source]