I say send the pills over by the cargo container

From the Chosun Ilbo: "'I'd rather swallow potassium cyanide than eat American beef' has persuasive powers in their motherland."

If I were the head of the American beef industry I'd be contacting pharmaceutical companies telling them about the high demand for potassium cyanide pills in Korea. I'd also be lobbying the Bush administration to include potassium cyanide pills in the FTA! Send them over by the cargo container!

For those not familiar with the on-going American beef will kill us all campaign in Korea, here's a bit of a primer:

Korea used to be one of the biggest importers of American beef in the world. They were cow crazy for cheap American beef which allowed even the humblest factory worker to eat like an American. Then mad cow struck and the Koreans (along with Japan and most of the rest of the world) closed their doors to the product. Now the UN agency in charge of global food safety has deemed American beef safe again for export and consumption. The problem now is the fact that Korean farmers have been charging 4.5 times as much as their American competition for beef. So the lefty unions, student groups and politicians have used the notion of food safety as a smokescreen for economic protectionism and xenophobia. But the Democratically controlled US Congress has demanded beef exports resume before it will even consider ratifying the KORUS FTA.

One of the things I've heard countless Canadians say is that this is nothing more than what goes around comes around for the American beef industry, since they 'did the same thing to us', according to the aforementioned Canadians. Well, no, the American beef industry did nothing close to Canada what the Koreans are saying about American beef.

On top of the cyanide lunacy there are teacher's unions: "The North Chungcheong Province chapter of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union posted on its Internet homepage materials its member teachers can use to get students to oppose the import of U.S. beef."