The United States urged Japan on Friday to eliminate all controls on U.S. beef imports linked to the prevention of mad cow disease and to fully open its market despite renewed fears in Japan about the safety of U.S. beef.

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative made the pitch in its annual report on global trade after South Korea decided earlier in the month to relax import rules for U.S. beef.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp.....427a2.html

Odd, though, that you associate clenbuterol with the fat strands in beef tissue. In the human body building game, chemical division, clenbuterol is among the gear used as a fat burner.

May not be fat but muscle strands. I had a brief tutorial on the stuff by a pharmaco guy who had worked with the stuff throughout Africa and Asia. As we went through the beef cooler at Lotte, the more expensive cuts with a specific pattern of marbling were pieces produced from clenbuterol-fed animals. I had remembered it as fatty tissue, although it could have been the way the muscle cut through the fat?

I’m surprised that U.S. beef has so far avoided public controversy in Korea over the hormone and antibiotic injections that U.S. cows receive.

Perhaps that would require Korean aggies to look at their own practices, one of which is continued use of clenbuterol to add muscle gain to immobilized animals. If you’ve ever seen large, muscled hanu on the farm, the fact that they’re basically immobilized should raise a red flag. As well, hanu that has the spiderweb-shaped fatty strands (as in better cuts of ggot deungsim) running through it is usually indicative of the use of this drug.

As for hormones and antibiotics, the latter are almost certainly used and the former probably, which would explain why Korean farmers and civic groups haven’t siezed upon those issues.

That didn’t seem to faze them during the Great Alar Scare a few years ago. They just didn’t tell the Korean public that they were spraying that and a lot of other shit as well.

Very unlikely. It’s not as if it’s something that suddenly popped out of nowhere. For the feed to have the prions, the carcass of the cow that was used to produce the feed would have had to have been infected. If I were you, I’d be more concerned about heart disease if I ate beef.

Not only does it melt your brain, but you can’t kill it during cooking because it’s not a virus or a bacteria. It’s some sort of inorganic crystal that kills brain cells. You open up someone’s head who has it and parts of the brain look like black goo. Furthermore, it can stay dormant in your body for decades. Thus, there could of been a problem with the meat dozens of years ago, but a population wouldn’t know it until much later.

We might learn a few decades in the future, this problem may have been more widespread then previously thought.

Again, they shouldn’t let bovine protein ANYWHERE near beef livestock.