South Korean protesters have punched, kicked and even flung animal manure to prevent cheap overseas food from entering the country, but that has not stopped consumers from snapping up imported beef and rice once they have hit store shelves.

The story explains that farm activists staged noisy protests at retailers in mid July on the first day US beef returned to store shelves in nearly four years, after it was banned due to an outbreak in the US of mad cow disease, and one group flung cow manure while others smashed glass cases. Despite the protests, US beef quickly sold out at places where the demonstrators did not gather.