I don't know if this is true or not. It was in my inbox one day, and I figured I'd put it up here anyway. Make your own decisions.


If you ever eat at McDonald's, you need to read this. McDonalds-Buying New Zealand and South American beef. We, as cattle producers, are very passionate about this. McDonalds' claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support their restaurants.

Well, we know that is not so. My opinion is they are looking to save money at our expense. The sad thing is that the people of the USA are the ones who made McDonalds successful in the first place, but we are not good enough to purchase beef from. We personally are no longer eating at McDonalds, 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 have 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. McDonalds has announced that they are going to start importing much of their beef from South America. South American ranchers 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 these problems and that they may be putting their families at risk from now on by eating at good old McDonalds.

American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is not what Americans deserve to eat. Not beef from countries where quality is loosely controlled.

Therefore I am proposing a boycott of McDonalds until they see the light. 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.