2011년 11월 20일 일요일

Imported beefs for the ordinary people

     Nowadays, in Korea, US beefs are an hot issue because of FTA. So, many people have a negative awareness about imported beefs because there was a disturbance about mad cow disease of US beef a few years ago. So, it is hard to change people's negative awareness. But, I think imported beefs are not always bad. Obviously, there is a good point.

     First of all, the biggest merit is a reasonable price. As we know, imported porks are cheaper than Hanwoo because of duty free. So, imported beefs are beefs for the ordinary people. Most ordinary people have a burden of price when they buy beefs. So, lots of the common people have bought porks instead of beefs. However, now, we can enjoy beefs without a burden of price than before.
    
     Almost people are worried about the quality of imported beefs. But, Max Baucus who is the senior United States Senator change the way of payment of beefs from advance payment to after payment. So, we don't need to worry about damage of quality.

     In conclusion, imported beefs are good for the ordinary people because of being cheap. And, we can choose a good quality of beef through after payment of beefs. Therefore, we should make effort to have a positive awareness than we just blame a imported beef.


2011년 11월 13일 일요일

the risk of Imported Beefs

     Recently people's interesting of imported beefs have been increased. import tariff was free and prices of imported beefs have been cheaper than domestic beefs. So, the number of people who buy the imported beefs have been increased as well. But, an insanitary breeding farm was revealed via some TV programs, and people are in great anxiety. So, even though imported beefs' prices are cheap, I disagree with free import duty of beefs. There are some reason why I disagree with that.
     First, imported beefs are low quality. Actually, we don't know exactly where those come from and how those quality is controled. The mess media already let us know about danger of imported beef. Especially, insanitary breeding farm and distribution system are a severe problem. Bacilli in the beefs can bring about various illnesses such as food poisoning and urine poisoning, what is worse, we can die. As well, some imported beefs are not young cattle and these old cattle are liable to have SRM(Specified Risk Material). So, imported beefs are not safe any more.
     Second, imported beefs are cheaper than domestic beefs(Hanwoo), beacause import tariff is free. So, lots of restaurants and homes buy imported beefs. We already know that Hanwoo (a korean beef cattle) is good, but it is so expensive. Accordingly, imported beefs are deeply occupied in our life. If the rate of dependence on imported beefs increase more and more, it will hinder growth of our domestic beefs.
     In conclusion, we are able to eat cheap imported beefs through free import duty. However, low quality of the beefs can cause various illnesses and even death. For that reason, I disagree with free import duty of beefs. Actually, we can't completely prohibit to import the beefs. Therefore, at least, there should be import tariff and imported beefs have to do free competition with domestic beefs.
                                    
                                   
insanitary barn