- I'm sure those of you who aren't in the cattle business
don't understand the issues here. But to those of us whose living depends
on the cattle market, selling cattle, raising the best beef possible...
This is frustrating. This will keep us from ever stopping there again,
even for a drink. The original message is from the Texas Cattle Feeders
Association American cattle producers are very passionate about this.
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- McDonald's claims that there is not enough beef in the
USA to support their restaurants. Well, we know that is not so. Our opinion
is they are looking to save money at our expense. The sad thing of it is
that the people of the USA are the ones who made McDonald's successful
in the first place, but we are not good enough to provide beef.
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- We personally are no longer eating at McDonald's, which
I am sure does not make an impact, but if we pass this around maybe there
will be an impact felt.
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- All Americans that sell cows at a livestock auction barn
had to sign a paper stating that we do NOT EVER feed our cows any part
of another cow.. South Americans are not required to do this as of yet.
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- McDonald's has announced that they are going to start
importing much of their beef from South America . The problem is that South
Americans aren't under the same regulations as American beef producers,
and the regulations they have are loosely controlled.
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- They can spray numerous pesticides on their pastures
that have been banned here at home because of residues found in the beef.
They can also use various hormones and growth regulators that we can't.
The American public needs to be aware of this problem and that they may
be putting themselves at risk from now on by eating at good old McDonald's..
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- American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the
world and this is what Americans deserve to eat. Not beef from countries
where quality is loosely controlled. Therefore, I am proposing a boycott
of McDonald's until they see the light.
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- I'm sorry but everything is not always about the bottom
line, and when it comes to jeopardizing my family's health, that is where
I draw the line.
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- I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each
of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ...and those 300 send
it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over
THREE MILLION consumers...
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- --David W. Forrest, PhD, PAS, Dipl.
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