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June 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 am

Missiing the Point of US Beef Protests

» by GI Korea in: Journalism, Korea-Business, Quick Links

I read news articles like this AP story currently on the front page of Yahoo and the International Herald Tribune’s Choe Sang-hun’s article and I just continued to be amazed how the majority of the mainstream media writers continue to miss the real point of the US beef protests. This is not about trade or food safety.

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