Bangladesh Restricted Meat Imports Following Disease Outbreak (Bernama) DHAKA, July 7 (Bernama) -- Bangladesh has restricted the import of meat as a precautionary measure amid global concerns of mad-cow disease outbreak, officials said here Sunday. [News Source]

donga.com[English donga] (donga.com) The nationwide protests against U.S. beef imports held this weekend by the People’s Association for Measures against Mad Cow Disease ended without clashes with police. [News Source]

The real beef in Korean trade pact. South Korea once was the third-biggest foreign market for U.S. beef. After a single American cow was found infected with mad-cow disease in 2003, it banned all American beef. [News Source]

Join up with the locavores and think global, eat local. The appeal of kitchen gardens — food you grow for the table — has been increasing pretty steadily. [News Source]

Bangladesh slaps restriction on meat import. Bangladesh has restricted the import of meat as a precautionary measure amid global concerns of mad-cow disease outbreak, officials said here on Sunday. [News Source]

Big protest planned for Seoul against beef and Lee. Polls show that most South Koreans oppose a deal President Lee Myung-bak struck in April to open the market to US beef. [News Source]

Koreans protest imports of beef. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in South Korea's capital Saturday against U.S. beef imports, as a pro-government group staged a counter rally calling for an end to weeks of sometimes-violent protests. [News Source]

Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む (Japan Today) U.S. President George W Bush asked Japan on Sunday to lift all of its mad cow disease-linked controls on U.S. beef imports and fully open its beef market, a Japanese official said. [News Source]

South Koreans rally against U.S. beef (Contra Costa Times) n An estimated 50,000 people protest import of meat products that they believe may contain mad cow disease [News Source]