In 2003, United States of America was a leading global exporter of beef and veal (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1). Unfortunately in that year Washington, D.C. recorded a single case of Mad Cow Disease (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.1).When humans consume beef containing the disease, their brains begin to degenerate (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006). Upon the U.S. announcement of the case, Japan suspended all of its imports of U.S. beef products. It was a blow to the U.S. as she was losing the principal importer of U.S. beef with the market valued at $1.2 billion in 2003 (Hanrahan & Becker, 2006, p.2). The United States immediately entered into negotiations with Japan to solve the issue. In October 2004, the two countries jointly announced that they would
