"M"COOL - "a good law" Leo???????

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as for this list, it is not accurate. There are people that I know who a members since the beginning and they are not on the list, also there are people that I know that aare against R-calf that are on the list, maybe to find out what the enemy is up to. Three people that I have found out recently that are paid members are not on the list. Also, no organization in the world has every member on email. And, why in the world would anybody put out a mailing list like that, I guess i should sell it to some porn site

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Sandhusker: "I see it as the AMI using you folks to knock us over the head to beat us into submission, and it's certainly worth $50 to me to for someone to stand up and call them out."

That's how you justify supporting a organization that stabs the Canadian producer in the back by lying about the safety of Canadian beef.

"DA PACKAH MADE US DO IT"

How ironic that AMI is not only wanting imported Canadian UTM cattle, they are suing to allow the importation of OTM cattle as well. Yup, the AMI must really be the enemey of the Canadian cattle producer Sandhusker.

Who the hell do you think you are fooling with your "conscience cleansing" blame of the AMI???


If R-CULT knew anything about trade, they would know that NAFTA has benefitted the U.S. cattle producer. We were in a $1.3 Billion dollar beef trade surplus prior to the border closures. Did R-CULT tell you that??? Hell no! Why? Cause it doesn't support their "afwaid to twade" isolationist agenda, that's why. When R-CULT was filing their loser dumping case against Canada, Mexico was filing one against us.



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[STAFF]

Meat Tracking Vital, McDonald's Exec Says

Omaha World-Herald, March 05, 2005


by Chris Clayton WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER


KEARNEY, Neb. -- The top executive in charge of buying beef for McDonald's said the fast-food company is expanding efforts to track meat from its origin.

Frank Muschetto, a McDonald's vice president, told producers at the Nebraska Governor's Agriculture Conference in Kearney that tracing beef to the producer is a "critical element" in ensuring food safety.

"We look at animal identification as a step along the way to help us make sure we have consumer confidence in our products," Muschetto said.

McDonald's has been tracking beef products to the meatpacker for several years. Now it wants to push tracking to the feedlots. Complicating the issue is that the average hamburger includes beef trimmings from several cattle.

"We recognize in the production of beef -- in the production of hamburger -- that individual lot identification is difficult," Muschetto said. "We would like animal identification back to its point of origin."

McDonald's bought about 1 billion pounds of U.S. beef last year. About 100 million pounds came from Nebraska meatpackers.

The company also uses beef from Australia and New Zealand in its hamburgers, though Muschetto said that remains only a small portion of its beef.

"Our focus is to buy United States to the extent as possible," Muschetto said.

McDonald's already is adept at tracing because regulations in Europe and Japan require more detailed standards for food companies. About 10 percent of McDonald's beef sold in the United States last year was fully traceable.

"Our standard is to have traceability and to maximize traceability for all of our products," Muschetto said.

The U.S. Agriculture Department is working to implement a voluntary animal identification system. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association wants to create a system that it would control.

"In our discussions with the beef associations, there has been support there as well," Muschetto said.

(C) 2005 Omaha World-Herald

[Big Muddy rancher]