Not just any generic commodity beef
SD CERTIFIED BEEF
Ask for it
If we are going to promote US beef, let's promote branded US beef, not some generic US commodity beef label to appease import blamers.
I find it absolutely amazing that some in our industry still refer to COOL as if it was source verification. Ironically, "M"COOL prohibited source verification ("M"ID).
Some slanted polls may show that consumers want Country of Origin labeling (assumed as source verification) if it doesn't cost them any more money but "M"COOL has nothing to do with SOURCE VERIFICATION. Those consumers who want COOL assume that they are getting source verification.
As has been shown by Texan, those same polls showed that consumers place country of origin at the bottom of their priority list.
"M"COOL, as written, exempted 75% of the imported beef that enters this country through the food service exemption. That leaves a measely 5% of the total US beef consumption labeled as imported under this flawed law creating a NOVELTY ITEM out of foreign beef. Consumers who believe most US consumers will prefer US product will have a hard time explaining the success of New Zealand lamb at the retail level.
Then to top that off, those who claimed that consumers should have the right to know where their beef comes from, didn't want the traceback system necessary to enforce it. LOL! As it is currently written, "M"COOL is unenforceable because it prohibited mandatory ID which was the only way to enforce M"COOL.
"Don't consumers have a right to know where their beef comes from........don't burden me with traceback".
THE ULTIMATE IN IMPORT BLAMING HYPOCRISY brought to you by the R-CULT followers.
John Kerry: "First I voted for it, then I voted against it".
"M"COOL, as currently written, is an absolute joke. For someone to blindly defend it as having any value speaks volumes.
How ironic that those who claim that "packers don't care about food safety" and "USDA doesn't care about food safety" assume that our beef is the safest in the world and want to differentiate it from Canada. LOL! Can't have it both ways.
I can see it now, a consumer walks up to the beef counter and says, "I'm not sure I want to buy any US BEEF because I heard this Bill Bullard fellow, who supposedly represents cattle producers, telling us that "USDA doesn't care about food safety". He said, "the packers don't care about food safety, all they care about is making money". Then he said that "Canadian beef is contaminated and high risk due to the fact that Canada had bse in their native herd" ......didn't we just have a case of BSE in our native herd"??? Why should I buy US BEEF? I think I'll buy chicken or pork".
With friends like Bill Bullard telling consumers that "USDA doesn't care about food safety" and R-CULT claiming that "having bse in your native herd means your beef is contaminated and high risk", who needs enemies?
Consumers want product differentiation in the form of source verification, not some generic "US BEEF" label on 95% of the beef which means absolutely nothing to the US consumer.
How ironic that in the era of product differentiation and source verification, the Derry Brownfield supporters of our industry bring us an unenforceable labeling law that exempts 75% of the imported beef. LOL!
With this type of emotionally driven empty legislation running our industry, this industry will continue to divide further between progressive producers and regressive blamers.
Interesting that someone noticed those bullet holes in the pictured skull. You can always tell these "so called cowBOYs" who are in the "cattle industry" from the "cattleMEN" who are in the "beef industry" because those who don't know anything about the "beef industry" shoot cattle between the eyes rather than in the center of the brain which is an imaginary "X" between the opposite ear and opposite eye. That's why these advocates of the "cattle industry" have to shoot these critters multiple times, as pictured.
If you didn't learn anything at all from this thread, at least realize that when you shoot an old cow, you draw an imaginary "X" from the opposite ear to the opposite eye to shoot them in the center of the brain as opposed to "BETWEEN THE EYES" which hits them in the nasal cavity below the brain. Always shoot them when their head is down and not when they are looking at you which can deflect the bullet. One shot with a .22 rimfire in the center of the skull will drop them like a sledge. I've never had to shoot one twice.
Texan, you are a breath of fresh air on a site that is usually dominated by industry blamers.
~SH~