MCOT English News : Seoul likely to resume U.S. beef inspections next week (MCOT - English News By Thai News Agency) SEOUL, May 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea is expected to resume quarantine inspections of U.S. beef imports next week amid nationwide protests triggered by concern about mad cow disease, officials said Sunday. [News Source]

Livestock Highlights: Barack Obama, Feeder Cattle, South Korea Beef Purchases (CattleNetwork.com) WASHINGTON (AFP)--The White House said Friday that it was still confident that South Korea would green-light resumed imports of U.S. beef despite "mad cow" fears and insisted that "American beef is safe." "Agriculture policy is difficult in a lot of countries, it's no different in South Korea . [News Source]

Appeasement industry (Kathimerini) The mad cow scare was only the first in a series of food scandals to follow: dioxins in olive oil and chickens, hormones in pork, traces of poisonous pesticides in fruit and vegetables, heavy metals and toxins in fresh fish. [News Source]