McDonalds - a boycott? oh-oh

[thomas712]

I checked on this at (sorry got to leave the link out) and it is true, but there is
more
about it if you go to that website and type in McDonald's Beef.
McDonald's
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. Please pass it on. Just to add a note, 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
least 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

 

[guppy slayer]

I got an email similar to this but it wasn’t about beef, it was about the up rise in gas prices. How Mickey D’s is the biggest burger joint, ExxonMobile is the biggest oil company and if we all boycotted going to ExxonMobile gas stations then they would have to lower there prices on gas to stay ahead of the competition. You tell 3 people , they tell 10 you’ve got 30 people turning into 3000...

 

[purity]

so we get cannabalistic beef now?
cool.

 

[lovethesea]

ugh....another reason why I am sick of them. The emails out to about 300 people.. (school email)
I have been reluctant of late just because they are SO dirty.
Not all, but most. There is only 1 around us (out of many) that I will go kicking and screaming to. I stick to the salads and I love their fries. But this just makes me sick, even with the mad cow problems, they are still going to allow this? :nope:

 

[thomas712]

I think of both McDonalds and Burger King as a condemint sandwhich.
Have you ever just tasted the BEEF by itself? totally gross. All you really taste is ketchup, musterd, pickles, and oninon....That unidentified flavor/substance is the beef.

 

[lovethesea]

yep, totally agree. Someone was at the food court in our mall eating a big mac....all I saw was bun and lettuce.
I stated in my email if this can go through for MCD it opens the door for all fast food.

 

[lovethesea]

lets see how many throw up gifs we all can come up with!!

 

[thomas712]

Originally posted by lovethesea
yep, totally agree. Someone was at the food court in our mall
The mall - that brings up another subject. I dare say that we will live to see the fall of the malls in our time, also perhaps the large super stores.
I have gone to some buisness meetings lately. I can not even believe the number of folks out there that are now shopping online. Even greater are the folks who are starting IBO type buisnesses that are talking others to do the same thing and shop online. So far I have escaped there grasp, but I am not sure how much longer I can hold out.

Some of you will get that, others won't.
Thomas

 

[moraym]

When amazon first started, everyone said that malls and stores would be a thing of the past. Well, there is still not that large of a percentage of people shopping online.
Many consumers value being able to touch and interact with the product, malls will not be a thing of the past, and any information to the contrary is clearly the hope of tech firms everywhere.
After all, a few years ago every single industry pushed to sell things online, and then millions of websites went under because the internet can never truly take over from brick-and-mortar shopping, the consumers' minds aren't going to change that quick.

 

[moraym]

If you're worried about beef, switch to bison. Sweet sweet bison. A few restaurants in town here offer bison at about $1.00 more. It's healthier, it's delicious, and it's much better than beef.
And if you have to eat beef, there's nothing like getting 3 double-cheeseburgers for $3 from McDonalds, i dont care where the beef comes from, that's some good eatin'.

 

[fishman830]

if every parents of every student in my school boycots exxon.. that's.. about 1500 customers.. that's just my school.....

 

[lovethesea]

ah, the mall.....I don't mind them, I just don't go that much.
I do a lot of on line. LL Bean, Eddie Bauer, and Lands End are the favs. If your in an eddie bauer and place the order, they don't charge shipping, thats nice.
I was approched by someone once that was starting up a company that was on line shopping. They didn't get me the name (and of course I shut down right there). I kept thinking pyrimid scheme.
People will always go to the mall. Around here, when there is a snow day, the mall gets full of kids. Can't make it to school but can get to the mall.

 

[lovethesea]

oh, back on topic....I have gotten a ton of emails tonight regarding my McD's email. :scared: they are all shocked
and horrified. One even sent the email to McD corporate here in St. Louis

 

[thomas712]

Originally posted by lovethesea
I was approched by someone once that was starting up a company that was on line shopping. They didn't get me the name (and of course I shut down right there). I kept thinking pyrimid scheme.

If interested I have a 24 page text file that explains quite a bit of things along those lines. My research shows that 95% of most of those MLM's fail in about 5 years. I love how they entice you to become a millionare or financially free in 2-5 years. Yet that list is really really small.
What really pisses me off is that as you say they really don't tell you what they do, who they are right away. Here is a clue if they mention Quixtar then they are somehow attached to Amway. Quixtar is attached to Amway.
Most of those product driven ones fail. Its just to hard to teach people to shop on line for things they cant inspect first.
I am still investigating one that sells services like local and long distance, DSL, and other services that we all use normally and has been around for 10 years.
Don't know though.
Thomas

 

[lovethesea]

This person was making me crazy. Everytime I asked her a specific quest, she kept saying, "you are familiar with this concept". WHAT CONCEPT? I kept asking. She finally budged a bit and said...."kind of similar to Amazon" :notsure:
She kept saying I could be making 30-50k in several years part time. Then I asked if I had to purchase anything. She didn't really answer, she just kept saying they had to fill this position with future positions coming. She kept asking if she and her Dad could make an appt to come to my house and they can show me the info. She couldn't even say where she got my name. No one I knew had been approached my them and ALL of the people I spoke to about it said "sounds like a pyramid thing".
I did find a compmay that sounded familiar. YOU buy all of the items yourself and then you are respondsible for selling them and making your own money. This site had everything from electronics to small appliances.

 

[thomas712]

When they talk about the pyrimid, one thing they say, and it either makes sence or not is that most everything is a pyrimid.
All those retail stores and such. All of them have a CEO or President at the top, followed by vice presidents- then District managers followed by store managers- managers under them, then department managers and employees. I think everyone knows that employees = expenses and when a company needs to cut expenses that means almost all of us that trade time for money means that we get cut. I can't tell you how often that has happend to me. In fact I am now in a position where I have to start all over again. Drives me crazy.
Problem is when this is explained to you, it does make sence. However while they are making sence they start to throw more smoke and mirrors at you, call it fluff if you like, while they avoid telling you exactly what they do. There best thing is dangling a carrot in front of you and telling you you can make millions. Why the smoke screan?
I have been approched by two such IBO buisnesses in the last couple of months. Only one of them have offered me no smoke and mirror, but I am still looking for that catch22.
Thomas

 

[thomas712]

Originally posted by lovethesea
This person was making me crazy. Everytime I asked her a specific quest, she kept saying, "you are familiar with this concept". WHAT CONCEPT?
I think the concept that they are trying to explain is the one where you join. The you get three or four people to join under you and also start to buy products, then they get others to do the same. As this grows they are also making money off of them.
After you are hooked in the product driven MLM then they start putting pressure on you to buy more so that the person who sponsered you gets more off of you, you in turn have to put pressure on the ones that you recruted so that you make more.
They call it a win/win situation. But at what cost. How are you going to make money if you keep spending what you make? Sortof the I owe my soul to the company store thing.
Now the other one that I have been looking at is a Service driven IBO. They at least sell a service that everyone today uses. But it is based on the Nag your friends and family to join just like above. That is truly the part that botheres me, the nagging of others to join routien.
If it is only a service that we all pay anyway, and if you swtich sevices then there really isn't anymore to buy is there. I'm still investigating this one. So no more pressure to buy more.
Another note is that many of these pyrimid type IBO things is that they do not advertise and they say that you are able to dip your hands into those savings. But with the product driven company you are stuck still purchasing products to make that volum to get that percentage. In the service one you are not. Hmmmm.
Once again I don't know.
Thomas

 

[lovethesea]

Originally posted by Thomas712
I think the concept that they are trying to explain is the one where you join. The you get three or four people to join under you and also start to buy products, then they get others to do the same. As this grows they are also making money off of them.
After you are hooked in the product driven MLM then they start putting pressure on you to buy more so that the person who sponsered you gets more off of you, you in turn have to put pressure on the ones that you recruted so that you make more.
Thomas
:thinking: hmm......Now that I am reading that, it sounds like the way a certain cosmetic company works. A friend of mine sold it for awhile and finally got so tired of the lady she worked for pratically harrassing her all day, every day, she quit. The said thing, the company touts "your own schedule, no pressure, and many $$" She was tired also, of always bieng
"in the hole" financially. All of the money she made, she had to give back to the compmay to buy more product. She was also always being told she needed to recruit people too.
I guess some people can make those things work, but I for one refuse to suck my family and friends in on a continual basis just so these people can make more money.
Like you said, I just don't know either.
Hey, how about MCD"s for lunch?