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UNREAL——CANADIAN BEEF..??
THIS IS FROM LAKESIDE PACKERS XL MEATS WHO TOOK THE TIME TO WRITE THIS AND HE SIGNED THE STATEMENT INCLUDING 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 claim there is not enough beef in Canada to support their restaurants. Well, we (ACFA) 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 the 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 informed impact felt.
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 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.
For me, everything is not always about the bottom line when it comes to jeopardizing my family’s health, that is where I draw the line.
I am sending this note to about 30 people.
If each of you send it to at least 10 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. Larry Latam
Sylvia Van Oene R.N. Occupational Health Services (HSD) XL Foods Inc. Lakeside Packers, Brooks , AB  Shalom |