So some people went to a McDonald's in Seoul to protest the restaurant's use of American beef. Because American beef is dangerous. And Korean beef is safe. So they shouldn't use American beef.
Haha, fail. There's a prominent box on the McDonald's Korea homepage addressing concerns about where the restaurants' beef comes from. The poster above, originally from here, says that the store uses Australian beef. Burger King has a little thing of its own on their site (it's a pop-up):
Lotteria has a pop-up of its own advertising domestic and Australian beef:
A few others:
Oh, please please please please please please please snuff the visa waiver program. And please please please please please please please have everyone here start bitching and moaning. And please please please please please please please have people make the connection and realize they don't get shit for free. And please please ple . . . wait, "make the connection?" Nevermind.
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It would be funny if, years from now, it turns out it was the Australian beef industry that was pulling the strings behind the scenes of these protests...
This is really perplexing for Koreans living in America. There must be a couple million 1.5ers in the west coast alone. There hasn't been a single confirmed Korean fatality due to mad cow disease that I can recall. (although the disease supposedly incubates insides for 30years before taking effect)
The US no longer feeds cow feed to cows. There is a remote chance of infection if you eat the cow's brain or certain nerve tissues, which is extremely low to begin with. Even in Great Britain where some 170 people reportedly died after bovine brain consumption, you're more likely to be eaten by a grizzly bear on the streets than die from BSE.
Here in LA I'm more likely to be shot down during a drive by shooting than encouter infected beef. Oh well, what can you do.
Wow.. Next time, everyone would have to make posters saying where their food come from. They should've asked rather than assumed.
Well, Noodle, I don't thik it would have mattered much. I don't think the issue was really where the beef has been coming from NOW, but that maybe, possibly, by an outside chance, who knows, these companies might choose American beef in the future. I don't think it's wrong for consumers to think about where their products come from, or for companies to display where their products come from . . . but my point is it's all built on the false premise that American beef is insanely unsafe (and that Koreans will die from it), so an already ridiculous panic is made much much moreso.
Plus, people who protest McDonalds-es are usually lame.
It's heartwarming to find Outback occasionally serves New Zealand beef too!
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