[Letters] American beef is clearly safe for consumption
Published: 01 May. 2012, 20:03
At this moment it is key to recall that the mad cow scare in Korea in 2008 was not scientifically merited, but rather it began due to proven lies broadcast on MBC’s “PD Notebook” that were perpetuated throughout the Korean media. There were only three cows previously identified with mad cow disease in America, contrasted to more than 180,000 in the U.K. Of the three sick cows in America, one came from Canada and another is believed to have had the atypical strain, leaving just one confirmed case of BSE. As for deaths in America due to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the illness caused in humans connected to BSE, there have been only three. Two of the people were U.K. citizens and were believed to have been infected by beef from their homeland and the third was likely infected before coming to the U.S. This means that not one American citizen has ever died from eating American beef.
Given the evidence, American beef is clearly safe for consumption.
by Max Watson, assistant professor at Dongguk University
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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