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South Korea: Fearing Mad Cow Disease, New Protests Against US Beef
globalvoicesonline.org 3 weeks, 1 day agoThousands of South Koreans held candlelight protests this week to demonstrate against continued beef imports from the United States after the detection of mad cow disease in California in April. Four years earlier in 2008, when several tens of thousands gathered for the candlelight vigils to protest a planned import, the government eventually made promises to halt imports immediately whenever the disease breaks out. The unkept promise now reignites public anger and has revived the four-year old tradition of


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