South Korea Retailers Halt US Beef Sates for MAD COW

South Korea stepped up inspections of U.S. beef following the discovery of the mad cow disease in a U.S. dairy cow that led to two major retailers to pull the meet off the shelves.  Many individuals from South Korea are worried for the halt in sales of the U.S. beef.  South Korea is the world's fourth-largest importer of U.S. beef, buying about 100,000 tons of the meat worth around $600 million dollars in the year of 2011.  Everywhere else in Asia continue to say that there is no reason to restrict these imports.  The mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, is fatal to cowsand can cause a deadly human brain disease in people who eat tainted beef.  

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