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...Fast-food giants such as McDonald's procure beef from all over, but Yoshinoya imports almost 100% of its meat from cheap U.S. producers. When Japan banned imports of American beef in late December because of mad-cow disease, Yoshinoya chief executive Shuji Abe called it "the worst of worst-case scenarios" and then announced the unthinkable: Yoshinoya's 980 Japanese outlets would run out of beef by mid-February. Gyudon aficionados rushed the counters, and sales jumped 10% from the previous month. Now the company concedes it might buy domestic or Australian beef, even though its prices would rise...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Timothy M. McDonald can be reached at tmcdonal@fas.harvard.edu...
...McDonald's, the world's largest fast-food chain, said that by the end of 2004 it would stop using meat from animals that had been excessively treated with antibiotics. The decision may help curtail the practice of dosing healthy animals with antibiotics to plump them up for slaughter. Doctors hope this will reduce the opportunity for disease-causing bacteria, present in meat, to become resistant to drugs...