Opposition parties step up offensive against U.S. beef imports. South Korea's opposition parties escalated their efforts to stop the resumption of U.S. beef imports Thursday, agreeing to push for a parliamentary investigation into the Seoul-Washington beef deal and dismissal of the agriculture minister. [News Source]

Video shows sick cow at Pa. livestock auction. Four months after inhumane treatment of cows revealed at a California slaughterhouse led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history, the Humane Society of the United States yesterday released new undercover videos of crippled cows at livestock auctions in four states. [News Source]

DNA tech traces meat to original animal. An Ireland-based company that uses DNA technology to test and track meat to the original animal and prove that it's what the label promises is now targeting U.S. retailers. [News Source]

Advocates release video they say shows cattle abuse. The Humane Society of the United States released video footage Wednesday of sick and injured livestock the group says were mistreated at auction sites and stockyards where cattle are sold for slaughter. [News Source]

S. Korea may demand revision of U.S. beef deal. South Korea said Thursday it may demand a revision of a beef import agreement with the United States as the government struggled to quell widespread perceptions that American beef is unsafe. [News Source]