Having farmers in my family and written about a farmer in Outcast, I feel this is an important issue, whether it's erotic or not. Then again, it just might be an erotic issue . . . without cows, we would have no cowboys!My sister Marcy sent me this email, but rather than forwarding it, I'm posting it. Feel free to copy and paste it into an email to send out as you see fit.
Who knows? Maybe together we can make a difference!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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 l east 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!
I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?
Acting
together we can make a
difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on..
David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal Science
Texas A&M University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979) 862-3399
2471 TAMU College Station , TX 77843-2471
7 comments:
It's crazy how much they're trying to replace farmers and ranchers. I had neighbors who were ranchers and they were struggling to sell what they could correctly.
On another note though, that cowboy has nice buns XD *Squeeze squeeze*
Now, this is something we CAN do to help the farmers, and I intend to not just send it on, but TALK about it wherever I go! Word of mouth has more impact even than the written word, and if we speak about it to the lady next to us in line at the health food store, the library, the post office, at church---we could each have quite an effect. Thanks, Cheryl!
Cowboy buns!! I love it! They're so....wholesome!
I so agree, All our Farmers and Cattle Ranchers, They need our help, and our support. We need to pass this message on, get the message out. This goes for alot of other jobs that our being sent overseas because it's cheap labor, cheaper living. We should all support only products that as my Wright Brothers song says: MADE in the USA!!! And Raised in the USA!!!
And yes, Cheryl, On a lighter note. We need the Big hard, Tough Cowboys, the Stallions, the Bulls, and the Zetithians. This would be a sad place without those Wholesome Men here. I still want to say I was made in the USA.
Thank goodness for cows and cowboys! I had no idea, well, I knew the farmers suffered, but McDonalds buying beef from South America? If they're doing it, I bet others are too.
Imagine if everyone, for just one day, didn't buy a burger from any fast food joint in the USA. The loss of money from that one day of absolutely no sales, wow! It would send a message wouldn't it?
It's something to think about!
WTG, Ladies! Spread the word!
There are lots of things that simply aren't done in this country anymore. When I was at Shakertown, the man making brooms said broom straw wasn't grown in America anymore; they make their brooms with straw imported from Mexico! That is just SAD!!!!
On a Practical Note. Cowbuddy please put your pants back on before you go Strutting it out there in the Sagebrush. We don't want you getting a Cactus Spine in those cute Hunky buns. Because we'd have to send Cheryl or Leslie after you with a tweezers. But then, on second thought, I think I could handle a tweezers.
Something about our bare-backed cowboy reminds me of that scene in one of the FIREFLY episodes where Captain Mal finds himself marooned, naked, on a planet that resembles the photo's background---anybody else a fan of FIREFLY?? I loved that show!!
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