Conservatives, Liberals Clash Over MBC Broadcast (donga.com) With conservative civic groups blaming MBC for its biased broadcasting on U.S. beef allegedly susceptible to mad cow disease and liberal netizens with opposite opinions clashed Friday as they staged demonstrations in front of the MBC building simultaneously. [News Source]

Belief in Brief: Kosher foods (Columbia Missourian) COLUMBIA — In the wake of the recent salmonella outbreak in tomatoes and concerns over food-related diseases such as mad cow disease, people are increasingly concerned with the safety and ... [News Source]

U.S. said to compromise on beef for South Korea. An agreement in which the U.S. would not export to South Korea beef from cattle more than 30 months old was sought to defuse South Korean furor over beef exports. [News Source]

Brown pushes EU to allow more modified animal feeds. Gordon Brown is calling on the European Union to relax its rules on importing genetically modified animal feed in a further sign of the Government's willingness to embrace the controversial technology. [News Source]

SEOUL, South Korea President apologizes for beef (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat) South Korean President Lee Myung-bak apologized again Thursday for failing to grasp the militant mad-cow fears of his people and promised them that any American beef sold here would only be from younger cattle deemed to be less at risk of the disease. [News Source]

South Korea, US near deal on US beef imports (Las Vegas Sun) Fri, Jun 20, 2008 (12:24 a.m.) South Korea and the United States neared an agreement to renew imports of American beef, aimed at defusing a political crisis in Seoul over fears of mad cow disease, officials said Friday. [News Source]

South Korea, US near deal on US beef imports (AP via Yahoo! News) South Korea and the United States neared an agreement to renew imports of American beef, aimed at defusing a political crisis in Seoul over fears of mad cow disease, officials said Friday. [News Source]