Questions on U.S. Beef Remain (New York Times) About 50 countries, including Korea, Taiwan and Japan, closed their doors to American beef after the first confirmed case mad cow disease was found in December 2003. [News Source]

World - Tuesday (Investor’s Business Daily via Yahoo! News) Pres. Lee Myung-bak's entire Cabinet offered to resign in the face of massive street protests amid a weakening economy. The protests against the gov't, in office barely three months, were sparked by public outcry over a deal to widen its market to U.S. beef imports. Widespread concern over mad-cow disease in U.S. beef quickly turned the issue into a lightning rod for a broad range of grievances ... [News Source]

Questions on U.S. Beef Remain (New York Times) About 50 countries, including Korea, Taiwan and Japan, closed their doors to American beef after the first confirmed case mad cow disease was found in December 2003. [News Source]

USDA Opposition to Mad Cow Testing Is Anti-Consumer, Anti-Competitive; Tests Could Resolve Korea Beef Trade Dispute (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) Consumers Union calls on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reverse itself and allow a Kansas based meatpacking company, Creekstone Farms, to test their slaughtered cows for mad cow disease. Last year, Creekstone won its suit against the agency for the right to test and label its meat as tested for BSE. USDA appealed the ruling, arguing the same rapid test kits used by the agency to screen ... [News Source]

South Korean cabinet offers to quit over beef row. South Korea's cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday after an unpopular deal to widen the market to U.S. beef imports sparked massive street protests against the government which has been in office barely three months. [News Source]

S Korea, US talk beef. South Korean ruling party lawmakers left Monday for the US to seek assurances that it will not export beef from older cattle in hopes of calming a domestic political crisis generated by fears of mad cow disease. [News Source]

S. Korean cabinet offers to quit after beef protests. South Korea’s entire cabinet offered to resign on Tuesday as President Lee Myung-bak struggled to find a way to allay fears that re-opening markets to American beef could expose the public to mad cow disease. [News Source]

80,000 demonstrate in Seoul against imports of US beef; fear mad cow disease (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News) SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's capital is witnessing its largest demonstration to date over a government decision to allow a resumption of U.S. beef imports. [News Source]

S. Korea Cabinet Offers to Quit Amid Beef Protests (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) Fears that imports of American beef could expose the public to mad cow disease has sparked protests in Seoul that have drawn tens of thousands of people. [News Source]

Korean Beef Protests Come To A Head (Forbes) President Lee Myung-bak's cabinet offers its resignation, as he seeks informal commitment from Washington not to ship older cattle thought to be prone to 'mad cow' disease. [News Source]