Where is the beef being imported FROM? That is important to some. Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 2:36 PM Subject: so true, so true
> Allan (and Chris) are right. This very thing happened a few weeks > ago. Someone forwarded me a lengthy message about how we all > should boycott McDonald's restaurant chain because they're > importing beef, not using our own US cattle, etc. The post was, by > all appearances, signed by Dr. David Forester of our own Texas > A&M University. I was very surprised he'd lend his name to > something this flammatory, so I wrote in private, asking about his > findings. He said definitely NOT! That he received the email and > checked into it, finding that McDonalds, like all other fast food > chains DO use imported beef, but the USDA regulates how many > cattle can be imported, it's not up to the individual company. And > went on to cite all the vast amounts of product McDonald's does > consume annually, produced here in the US. The Vice President of > McDonald's himself had sent Dr. David a counter claim stating > those facts. (I was sent both letters also.) > NOW, I don't utilize this food chain, and do not condone the factory > farms that supply the beef, milk, eggs, chicken, nor the > stupendous amounts of gene altered crops that go into the wheat, > corn, other cereal grains that McDonald's depends on to 'feed the > nation'. SO DON'T GET YOUR KNICKERS IN A KNOT OVER THE > CONTENT HERE...... > But this poor doctor will go down in history saying something he > didn't say, against possibly the very university that is partly > supported by funding from transgenic research and development > groups. So, in effect, by asking for further proof, or wanting more > information, he very wellmay have cut his own career throat. > martha > >
