donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) Today, we are living in a society where the line discerning truth from lies has become increasingly blurred. U.S. beef, for which 300 million citizens and 2.5 million Koreans living in the United States routinely consume, turned preposterously into meat prone to mad cow disease here. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) Police obtained arrest warrants for eight leaders of the People`s Association for Measures Against Mad Cow Disease on the suspicion that they have spearheaded illegal demonstrations and searched the homes of seven of the association’s leaders Tuesday. [News Source]

Catholics hold a mass prayer over US beef import (China Daily) Korean Catholics take part in a mass prayer demanding a full-scale renegotiation of the US beef import deal at the Seoul City Hall Plaza July 1, 2008. Thousands of Catholics and anti-US beef protesters, who fear infection of the mad cow disease, held the mass prayer. [News Source]

Koreans absolutely correct to object to US beef imports. Not only because of the very valid fears coming from the mad cow syndrome, but because of the nightmarish accumulation of pesticides, antibiotics, steroids, bovine growth hormones manufactured by that corporate monster Monsanto. [News Source]