Japan enacts law to boost protection of wagyu genetic materials

illegal breeding overseas

pfft! These cows CAME from overseas!

Like there aren't more important things going on right now that legislators should be working on?

Only a small percentage of the population here actually eats "wagyu", mostly they eat imported meat from numerous countries around the world.

This is one thing that really isnt important RIGHT NOW!

exploit, maltreat and kill animal become an intellectual property. this broken world has no limit....

wagyu - the biggest scam in global beef. NZ Grass fed Angus any day of the week

Why not let the Chinese raise wagyu too? The more the Chinese eat beef, the less they'll be eating dogs, bats, pangolins and other wild animals.

call it what it is.

Monopoly.

Make sure if wagyu is consumed in any other country it should

be exported from Japan. What a selfish move.

If the Internet was a Japanese invention the world would be paying to browse.

Thank god whatsapp , Google etc aren't Japanese.

The cow is not native to Japan. Every single cow in Japan is a descendant of a “Johnny Foreigner” cow. They even Moo in English!

Didn't they also want to copyright 'curry' a few years back? Of all the curries in the world, I would rank Japanese as the lowest. I really don't need a tonne of sugar, palm fat or lard.

Forget wagyu. Go vegan.

@Pukey2

Didn't they also want to copyright 'curry' a few years back? Of all the curries in the world, I would rank Japanese as the lowest. I really don't need a tonne of sugar, palm fat or lard.

Forget wagyu. Go vegan.

@Pukey2

Didn't they also want to copyright 'curry' a few years back? Of all the curries in the world, I would rank Japanese as the lowest. I really don't need a tonne of sugar, palm fat or lard.

Forget wagyu. Go vegan.

(somehow my comment was deleted above?)

THIS!! The most genuine Japanese diet would be the vegetarian or pescaterian one. Meat-eating is an imported habit. Japan would have such an amazing opportunity here, if it only took it, to develop amazing vegan/vegetarian/pescaterian dishes based on their own, genuine history.

Be proud of your history Japan. Ditch the meat.

NZ Grass fed Angus any day of the week

nah Tasmanian beef far better, NZ just better stick to milk

Forget wagyu. Go vegan.

Bwahahahahaha

Vegan food is my food's food.