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McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada

McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada

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McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 20, 2012 01:00 PM

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.

 


“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 20, 2012 01:21 PM
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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 20, 2012 01:27 PM

at least no greenhouse gases were put into the environment while spreading this manure! ;\


"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power"

Benito Mussolini

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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 20, 2012 01:55 PM

If the American or Canadian beef producers have made this u[. Do they not put their businesses at risk by discouraging people to not eat at McDonalds since they are the largest single buyer of American and Canadian beef?

 

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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 20, 2012 03:40 PM

There may be less beef soon now that the Harper team has recently signed a tallow export deal with China.

 

http://www.betterfarming.com/online-news/canada-resume-tallow-exports-china-5028


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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 09:43 AM

I wasn't aware McDonalds actualy had any beef in there hamburgers :^O

 

 

Anyway shouldn't a hamburger contain ham ?





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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 09:55 AM

Why would a "R.N." ever recommend eating at McDonalds, even if the beef was Canadian?

 

Think about it.

 

Just a self-serving statement by an employee on behalf of her employer.

 

For some background:

http://www.nfu.ca/press_releases/2010/06-07-losing_grip.pdf


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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:18 AM

The problem is solved

 

Mystery Meat: First Ever 'Test Tube' Beef Could Be Hitting Shelves Near You

It’s giving a whole new meaning to the term “mystery meat.”

The first ever “test tube” meat could be hitting menus in the not-so-distant future.  Dutch scientist Mark Post announced at a symposium on Sunday titled “The Next Agricultural Revolution” that he has come up with a method to grow meat entirely out of cow stem cells.  Post said his team aims to have a couple of thousands of small tissues to assemble into an entire hamburger as early as this fall.

The ultimate goal: Entirely replace the meat-animal industry.

The project was made possible by a donation of 250,000 euros, or close to $330,000, from an anonymous investor with a “care for the environment…and interest in life-changing technologies.”


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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:24 AM
Actually,hamburgers are named after Hamburg,Germany,just as frankfurters are named after Frankfurt,Germany.;)
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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:26 AM

I wasn't aware McDonalds actualy had any beef in there hamburgers :^O

 

 

Anyway shouldn't a hamburger contain ham ?

Lats try that again. Actually,hamburgers are named after Hamburg,Germany,just as frankfurters are named after Frankfurt,Germany.;)
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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:37 AM

Humans are not designed to eat meat.....we are herbivourous. That in itself is probably to a large part the cause of many of our health problems. Next add in the countless antibiotics and hormones given to factory raised animals and we now have more problems.

 






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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:40 AM
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I hope we were designed to drink beer...

 





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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 21, 2012 10:59 AM

Beer is a food group. Completely allowed.....even encouraged.






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Re: McDonald's claim there is not enough beef in Canada
Feb 22, 2012 12:07 PM

Humans are not designed to eat meat.....we are herbivourous. That in itself is probably to a large part the cause of many of our health problems. Next add in the countless antibiotics and hormones given to factory raised animals and we now have more problems.

 

We're actually omnivores but part of the mammalian order Carnivora.

 

Which is different from our dietary characteristics.

 

The Carnivore order includes not only herbivores and carnivores, but also those in between in terms of diet: frugivores, gramnivores and insectivores for example.

 

We (humans) are dietarily omnivores: capable of eating either plants or animals. Like for example the chimpanzees who will eat either.

 

It's only the apes for example at the extremes of size end: the smallest tend to only eat insects with limited amounts of greens, and the largest who tend to eat mostly fruits and greens.

 

We're more opportunistic dieters who will eat greens or fruit if available, or meat if freshly killed (either by us or someone else if we can drive them away and steal their kill).

 

There is no physiological evidence now or in our past that we are best adapted to function as vegetarians

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