Email I received about McDonalds

[Aikman_TheGreat]

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.

The guy that wrote this is a professor at Texas A&M University. He left his contact info in the email, but I didnt feel it would be apporpriate to post it in here.

What does everyone else think of this?

[Jaded]

wonder if anyone could even tell the difference if McD gets their beef from SA.... hmmm

[OnePimpTiger]

This happens all the time in different industries. I would think any beef imported from South America would still have to be approved by the FDA to be served...

But I'm already doing my part to fight this, I rarely, rarely eat at McDonald's...not because of this, but because it's terrible food. Which, by the way, brings up a good point: If I were an American cattle farmer, I wouldn't want anyone to know my beef was used at McDonald's...

[FootballCardFreak]

McDonald's is horrible anyway. Bad tasting and not to mention very detrimental to one's health. I'd assume that the beef that McDonald's uses will still have to be approved; however, I wouldn't be happy with it if I ate there.

[angel0430]

I really don't care about McDonalds. I think the food is nasty

[Crater_Satori]

I received the same one but in regards to Canadian Cattle back in May....I call fake personally (Why - IDK, maybe to get more emails addys and names)...The author has a different name....

This IS A GOOD DECENT MAN WHO TOOK THE TIME TO WRITE

THIS AND: HE SIGNED THE

STATEMENT AND: INCLUDED HIS CONTACT INFO:

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 Alberta Cattle Feeders

Association Canadian

cattle producers are very passionate about this. McDonald's claims that

there is not enough beef in Canada 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 Canada 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.

Please pass it on. Just to add a note:

All Canadians that sell cattle at a livestock

auction barn have to

sign a paper

stating that we do NOT EVER feed our cattle any part of another animal. 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 Canadian 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

Canadian 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. Canadian ranchers raise the

highest quality beef in the world and this is what Canadians 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 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!

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.

I left the name out also, in case this happens to be a real person, which I doubt....

[Aikman_TheGreat]

I received the same one but in regards to Canadian Cattle back in May....I call fake personally (Why - IDK, maybe to get more emails addys and names)...The author has a different name....





I left the name out also, in case this happens to be a real person, which I doubt....

Wow, weird. My letter contains the guys name, followed by PhD and some other letters, his university and department, an adress, phone number and fax number. Very well could be fake though, since you got the same thing.

[dherm360]

I got the same one early this year, late last year

[WilyWestbrook0]

I'm surprised no one has replied yet with a Snopes link. Never believe everything you get in a random e-mail.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/mcdbeef.asp

[Aikman_TheGreat]

Ok, fake for sure. This is the first time i've actually blieved one, mainly just because of the name and information of the guy who wrote it. Silly me.