Quite a Reputation

May 9, 2008

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Well, I suppose there are all sorts of nits you could pick about animal agriculture. But you have to credit America’s beef industry for carving out a worldwide reputation that’s second to none. In a just-completed survey, a full 75 percent of Koreans regard America’s beef as unsafe. Which is just too bad, because the miracle of free-trade bullying is going to force them to import the stuff anyway.

It’s amazing when you think about it. If 75 percent of Americans thought, for instance, that Hyundai cars were unsafe the company would lose its shirt if they tried to sell in the USA. But somehow, America’s ranchers can still make a profit shipping beef to a country that doesn’t want the stuff, and whose citizens overwhelmingly consider it unsafe. Link.

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