MRJ said:Econ101 said:MRJ said:Econ, you are such a gentleman! What sort of parents taught you so well???
If I'm one of the idiots, you certainly are the champion of us all!
Do you really fail to understand that receiving a smaller piece of a larger pie can mean getting more........and I'm only using pie instead of cattle or beef as an example because it is easier to picture (for some of us that is).
Don't ignore the fact that those importers could take that money they must pay to the checkoff and use it to focus a hotshot ad campaign for their "Grass Fed", "Maple Leaf Finest", "Pampas Grown", "New Zealand Pampered" or any of a multitude other catchy phrases implying superior quality, because the CAN provide it. Some of you like to imply that all imported beef is "crap" (to quote Johnny Smith, ardent fundraiser for R-CALF), but you are far off the mark in that claim!
The amount of money the Beef Checkoff leaders spend on advertising has dropped dramatically as the need to use some of the money for research and education has become understood.
Are you sure you are not an anti-meat activist masquerading as a champion of the cattle/beef industry? So much of what you post is really detrimental to this industry, it causes one to wonder.
MRJ
MRJ, today I was going to go back and take the idiot comment out of my post to you but after you wrote this, I think I will just let it stay in.
How is so much of what I post detrimental to the industry? The food safety and accountability part? The part about the USDA not running a proper regulatory agency? The part about the USDA not allowing competition?
Sometimes I wonder if you really think you can provide a good product without all the crutches the above questions suggest.
Econ, so typically for you to 'sort of' offer a back-handed, 'almost' apology for your mean spirited name calling, 'almost' retracting it, then deciding not to because of some self-perceived slight to you when you have been given a well deserved scolding by me or others.
The part of your posts detrimental to the cattle/beef industry is just that part which is speculative at best, and laden with conspiratorial innuendo generally (such as your unproven "corrupt USDA, Tysons TRYING to drive cattle producers out of business, GWB promoting business corruption" and things like your supposed access to "closed door meetings", probable phone taps, etc. and general discouragement to consumers that beef is a safe product in this country with such wicked governance and business tycoons.......those do, IMO, seem not in the best interest of those of us making a living from the cattle/beef business....
MRJ
MRJ, the words conspiracy are only coming from your lips.
We do have a corrupt USDA. It is not just the regular beaurocratic mistep. Just look at their policies and their regulatory agencies. There is no accountability. Have you read the OIG report yet? It shows this to be a fact. The problem is that you are an idiot that believes nothing but what you want to hear regardless of the facts. The fact that there was no follow up investigation of JoAnn Waterfield means there will be no accountability and the actions of that regulatory agency will remain unaccountable. The complaints against big business will be swept under the rug yet again. The politicians will continue to take political donations that ensure a regulatory agency that will do nothing. You are an idiot for taking the stand you take of "everything is ok--everyone who wants to change the industry's problems is just a conspiracy nut". GWB is the "decider" and is accountable for the the executive branch's total incompetence in these areas. Keep worshipping incompetence because you are a bone fide idiot. It fits who you are.
Sometimes you have to call them like you see them.
You wouldn't stand up for a producer unless it was yourself.
I see you as one of the biggest pansies and idiots on this forum. It isn't because you don't know, it is because you don't want to know.
Keep telling yourself everything is right in this world and you will never be able to fix the things that are wrong--heck, you can't even recognize them when they are put right before your face unless the NCBA tells you. You and your kind are the arthur andersons of this world. You allow fraud to continue in your midst and you do nothing to stop it. You even get in the way of stopping it because you are an idiot.
How do you sleep at night?
Go read the OIG report instead of asking the NCBA about it.