THIS IS A GOOD DECENT MAN WHO TOOK THE TIME TO WRITE THIS AND,
HE SIGNED THE
STATEMENT AND, INCLUDED HIS CONTACT INFO:


READ ON

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.

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 l east 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....

David W. Forrest, Ph.D ., PAS, Dipl.
ACAP Department of Animal
Science
Texas A&M; University
Phone (979) 845-3560
Fax (979)
862-3399
2471 TAMU College Station , TX
77843-2471

(I got this in an e-mail, and I can't guarantee the veracity. If you have critical questions, try the above address.)