2 posts tagged “japan”
I’m running amuck with my Nokia N80, so come to my photoblog to see our 75 hours of fun in Japan.
An article from Yomiuri Online quotes a survey of 1741 Japanese on their attitudes towards eating US beef.
“Asked whether they want to eat U.S. beef, nearly 90 percent of respondents had negative views, with 45 percent of the respondents saying they did not want to eat it, and 43 percent saying they would like to decide after more consideration. Only 10 percent of the respondents said they wanted to eat U.S. beef.”
At our favorite Japanese fast-food beef haunt, Matsuya, they’ve been serving Australian and Japanese domestic beef since the ban on US beef imports. Prior to the import ban, US beef was a staple on the Matsuya menu. I didn’t like the Australian beef I had at Matsuya (too fatty, though that could have just been a particular batch), but the Japanese beef (which is priced at a premium) was excellent.
US beef exporters are going to have a tough time breaking back into the Japanese market, but if the US beef industry were more responsive to customers’ concerns about food safety and less reliant on lobbying trade groups, they might have made a lot more money in the future.
