South Korea and U.S. Reach Deal on Beef Imports (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) Protests continued despite an accord to restrict beef exports to cattle less than 30 months old to allay fears over mad cow disease. [News Source]

South Koreans cry foul over beef, turn to greasy pork. U.S. and South Korean trade envoys said at the weekend they had forged a deal to allow a wide variety of U.S. beef products back into South Korea, which banned imports in 2003 after an outbreak of mad cow disease in the United States. [News Source]

South Korea and U.S. reach deal on beef imports. More than 10,000 people in Seoul protested beef imports from the U.S., despite an announcement hours earlier that Seoul and Washington had agreed to restrict the shipments to allay South Koreans’ concerns about mad cow disease. [News Source]

South Korea and U.S. Reach Deal on Beef Imports (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) Protests continued despite an accord to restrict beef exports to cattle less than 30 months old to allay fears over mad cow disease. [News Source]

Anti-Beef Protesters Hold 48-Hr Candlelight Vigils (donga.com) Despite the government’s announcement on the additional negotiations for U.S. beef imports, the People’s Association for Measures Against Mad Cow Disease proceeded with its “48-hour protests” Saturday and Sunday. [News Source]

Is meat off the menu? Meat consumption has come under attack on grounds of ethics, environment and health and has even been blamed for the global food crisis. [News Source]

US, S Korea agree to restrict beef shipments to soothe health concerns, but protests continue. South Korea said it will resume imports of U.S. beef after American and South Korean suppliers agreed to block meat from older cattle. [News Source]

US beef from cattle older than 30 months old to be banned. Seoul announced Saturday it will introduce a special age verification program to ban imports of American beef from cattle older than 30 months old indefinitely. [News Source]

South Korea and U.S. Reach Deal on Beef Imports (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) Protests continued despite an accord to restrict beef exports to cattle less than 30 months old to allay fears over mad cow disease. [News Source]

New protests in Seoul stop deal on U.S. beef (International Herald Tribune) A new import deal with the United States failed to quell South Koreans' concerns about mad cow disease and their policy grievances with President Lee Myung Bak. [News Source]