Open market doesn’t mean open mouths

Of all the good news about Kansas’ reviving economy, this may be the best yet: Japan is getting over its mad cow fears and reopening its markets to U.S. beef this week for the first time in two years, holding out hope for a full rebound for what was a $175 million market for Kansas beef in 2003. And no Senate-imposed tariffs were necessary, thank goodness.
Of course, now that U.S. officials have convinced Japanese officials that U.S. beef is safe, they must do all they can to make sure it is safe — including, if necessary, allowing tougher testing and more specific labeling than U.S. officials have wanted to date. Then there is the Japanese public: One poll last week found 75.2 percent still unwilling to eat American beef.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

4 Comments

  1. Damoon
    Posted December 12, 2005 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

    We’d all be better off if we followed their example and quit eating it, too. American beef is full of artifical hormones and antibiotics. That in itself makes it risky to consume.

  2. Ed Friedemann
    Posted December 12, 2005 at 5:14 pm | Permalink

    Texas cows don’t get mad. But, they don’t your type of BOE.

  3. XXX
    Posted December 12, 2005 at 7:30 pm | Permalink

    Ed,Texas cows don’t get mad, they get even, lol!

  4. Ed Friedemann
    Posted December 12, 2005 at 7:43 pm | Permalink

    ouch