Picture: Inside a Japanese customers freezer
"cow tongues are popular in Japan, Cevin Jones, vice chairman of the Federation of State Beef Councils...said."A tongue here in the United States is worth 15 cents a pound," he said. "It's worth $15 a pound over there. Right there is a big boost in the value of that animal.""
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Northwest beef industry targets Japanese consumers
By Matthew Weaver
Capital Press
Friday August 23rd 2013