Tam said:
Sandhusker said:
Tam, "Econ tell us if all beef coming from Canada was tainted and a genuine risk of death if imported into the US as R-CALF CLAIMED IT WAS then why were R-Calf supporters in Canada buying cheap cattle and selling the meat into the US market with the rest of the Canadian beef? R-CALF's own members didn't believe the crap Leo was spouting or they would not have been buying Canadian cattle. So why is it freedom of speech when R-CALF lies to hold up a whole industry but it is industry retaliation against producers if the Canadian slaughter plants decide they want to support the Canadian producers by not buying R-CALF Supporter owned cattle at the same price they were willing to pay Canadian producers?"
How many cattle were bought by R-CALF members? I don't need an exact number, round it to the nearest thousand.
How many R-CALF members were buying Canadian cattle?
I'm with Bill do your own research but calling the R-CALF office will probably do you no good as Leo changed his story so it wouldn't look so bad for R-CALF's credibility on the tanited beef line. He first came out defending the R-CALF supporters rights to buy cattle in Canada by saying "I don't see anything wrong with it as these guys have been going it for years."
But all those other years R-CALF wasn't claiming our beef was a genuine risk of death were they?
So when on the RFD-TV program they had Shae asked him about it and his answer was "There were no R-CALF supporters in Canada buying cattle why would they there is not value in it for them." See how the story changes when the truth goes against the story R-CALF wants everyone to believe. Leo can deny it and so can you but there were quotes in news articles on both sides of the border from the R-CALF supporters whining about how the packers stole their profits and how they lost their shirts. Well to bad alot of Canadian producers lost their shirts because of R-CALFS lies and delays so why shouldn't they. That was the price they paid by thinking they could come to Canada and make a fast buck off the backs of the Canadian system that R-CALF wanted no part of.
You know R-CALF members were buying cattle up there and losing their shirts, but you don't have any idea of how many members there were and how many cattle. All you have is heresay and no facts. In short, you don't KNOW anything.
Here's what I KNOW, Tam. There very well could of been a few R-CALF members buying cattle up there. If the actual number could be found, I would wager that it was a very, very small number compared to the membership rolls and not as what you are trying to allude to.
I KNOW R-CALF did not encourage members to buy Canadian cattle, and that they have no control over individual member's business activities. To hold R-CALF somehow responsible for a handful of members going against the orginization's policy would be the same as holding the Republican party responsible for a member getting an abortion or holding the Democrat party responsible for a member buying a pistol at a gun show. :roll:
This latest attempt to discredit R-CALF is just as comical as BMR trying to paint them as antagonists to Creekstone. You folks are tinkling upwind. :lol: