If you ever eat at McDonald's, you should be concerned about this.

According to Gale Kittell, an american beef producer in Manhattan, Kansas, McDonalds' claims that there is not enough beef in the USA to support their restaurants.

This simply is not true. American cattle growers are beginning to suffer because of corporations beginning to purchase beef/meat products outside the United States. The truth is, they are doing it to increase profits. However, at what possible health costs will american consumers have to pay? Here is why.

All American cattle growers that sell cows at livestock auction barns have to sign an affidavit stating that they do NOT EVER feed their cows any part of another cow. It is also against USDA regulations. Feed that includes other animal parts cannot be feed to cattle that are grown by cattle growers in the United States. But what you didn't know is this.

South American cattle growers are not required to do this. McDonald's recently announced they will start importing much of their beef from South America. South American cattle ranchers aren't under the same regulations as American beef producers. In addition, the regulations they have are loosely controlled. First, growers in the countries are allowed to spray numerous pesticides on their pastures including DDT, ( a known carcinogenic ) that have been banned in the United States because of residues of these chemicals found in the beef. Mexico is another country that allows the use of DDT on grain fed to animals. They are also allowed to use various hormones, excessive antibiotics and growth regulators that American cattle growers cannot use for various health reasons. Research has shown the use of hormones in animals is transferred to the flesh of the animals and the hormones are affecting humans involving their immune endocrine systems. Use of excessive antibiotics in animals is creating immune problems in humans. Use of hormones in animals are affecting the hormone production in humans.

The USDA is not doing anything to prevent the importing of this beef to the United States.

The American public needs to be aware of these problems and that they may be putting their families at risk from now on by eating at McDonald's. American ranchers raise the highest quality beef in the world and this is what Americans deserve to eat. American do not, should not have to eat beef from countries where quality is loosely controlled.

Now is the above fact or fiction? It is fiction. Apparently, a bogus email started sometime ago. Below is a statement issued by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

We are aware of the e-mail about McDonald's and beef imports that continues to circulate. We do not know where it started. For complete information, we ask people to contact McDonald's - Lisa Howard, lisa.howard@mcd.com or 630-623-5044.

The claim that McDonald's is importing South American beef is untrue at this time, but you may want to keep reading. Later on in the column, I tell you about the infamous Britain case in 1997 against McDonald's.

No South American beef is coming in for McDonald's. In fact, the only South American beef the U.S. is currently importing has to be cooked or canned (because of Foot and Mouth Disease concerns there).

However, McDonald's is importing beef from Australia on a test basis. This is true.

Here are some key points.

McDonald's recent decision to pilot-test imported product (from Australia and or New Zealand) in some US outlets means nothing to how much beef will be imported into this country. Because of Tariff Rate Quotas (TRQs), Australia and New Zealand are limited in what they can send to the United States. Last year both countries either met or came very close to their limits; it's expected that this year will be no different. So in essence, this decision only means more competition for existing product, not increased amounts of it.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is adamantly opposed to any increase to TRQs for these or any other countries until markets for U.S. beef can be expanded (McDonald's has said they also oppose increasing TRQs). NCBA believes that if international trade is to be successful, it must be conducted on a level playing field.

Even with the importation of product for 400 of its approximately 18,000 stores in this country - McDonald's remains the largest commercial purchaser of U.S. beef. This beef is primarily trimmings from U.S. packing plants, which without the consumer demand for hamburgers would be relatively worthless. Because of the success of McDonald's and other fast food restaurants the U.S. beef industry has created a value-enhancing market for this potentially limited product.

It is well-documented that there is a surplus of 50-50 (50% lean/50% fat) ground beef trim in the U.S. and a shortage of 90-10 trim. The two must be blended to produce the kind of ground beef the quick service restaurants sell. McDonald's actually 'exports' 19 million pounds of U.S. 50-50 trim annually to South America to support its stores in that market.

McDonald's says it is the biggest buyer of beef in the U.S., using more than one billion pounds per year. (Burger King is second biggest.) McDonald's says that any foreign beef purchased is 100% USDA-approved and inspected. According to the statement, most major quick service restaurant chains including Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Carl's Jr. have used or are now using a significant percentage of imported beef, up to 50 percent.

NCBA would prefer that hamburgers be made solely from U.S. beef. We are working with McDonalds to find ways to provide American beef for their domestic and international restaurants.

Make sure you use the form at the top to send an email to your family and friends about this information to stop this disinformation. Although I do not recommend eating at McDonald's because of their high trans fatty acids ratios their foods, however, a rumor like this is unjustified. But there is more.

McDonald's fought a lengthy 2 1/2 year court case in England. The case centered around mad cow disease in McDonald's beef. The Judge ruled in June 1997, that McDonald's 'exploit children' with their advertising, produce 'misleading' advertising, are 'culpably responsible' for cruelty to animals, are 'antipathetic' to unionisation and pay their workers low wages. But the defendants in the case he said failed to prove all the points and so the Judge ruled that they HAD libelled McDonald's and should pay 60,000 pounds damages. They refused and McDonald's knew better than to pursue it. The legal controversy continues however. The case is currently before the House of Lords and a trip to the European Court of Human Rights is planned.

Evidence was also submitted by Sue Brandford, a Brazil specialist, about the environmental damage caused by cattle ranchers supplying beef to McDonalds, who were also responsible for the violent displacement of small farmers and indigenous peoples. She testified that she had seen areas of Mato Grosso, which had supplied McDonald's in the past, deforested for cattle ranches in the early 1980s, and had visited areas in Goias where McDonald's has admitted recently that they still obtain their beef. Ms Brandford had seen it in the early 1970s, when it was Amazonian tropical rainforest, but had then later witnessed it being cleared and burned for cattle ranching. This evidence, forced out of the company by the defendants, has exposed as nonsense the claims by McDonald's of never using any beef raised on ex-rainforest land. Evidently, McDonald's has purchased beef from Brazil cattle growers in South America in the past, but may not now. So, where lies the truth in this matter?

For more information on this, please visit this site, http://www.mcspotlight.org/case/index.html.

There is some very interesting material on this site about all of this concerning McDonald's.

So what is the truth about all this. You'll have to decide.

Bottom line, I don't eat at McDonald's because in my opinion, McDonald's food has been along with all the other fast food chains been the main cause of causing the increase in diabetes and heart disease because of their fatty hydrogenated trans fatty foods. And the way they market to children is deplorable and I'm sorry, parents that feed their kids Happy Meals need to have a brain scan or something! Don't they know what is in that good, chemicals, high fats and God knows what else!

Listed below is a great article written by Christina on SpoonFedBlog.net to read about McDonald's - November 5th, 2010:

Forget Happy Meal toys. Let’s ban McEducation. Please read this article for what McDonald's has started in 2010 is even more deplorable with how they are now marketing our children in our public schools!

A final note to think about concerning the upcoming November elections. Knowledge is power. There are those that do not want the masses to have knowledge. For in knowledge there is truth if one only listens to the wisdom of the truth before them.

Here is knowledge and information that I know many do not know.

Did you know that 42 U.S. Presidents are related to Philip of Macedonia (382-336BC) including President Bush? Here is the bloodline.

Philip married Olympias, and their son was Alexander the Great (356-323BC), a tyrant who plundered that key region of Greece, Persia, Syria, Phoenicia, Egypt, Babylon, the former lands of Sumer, and across into India before dying in Babylon at the age of 33. During his rule of Egypt he founded the city of Alexandria, one the greatest centers for esoteric knowledge in the ancient world. Alexander was taught by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, who in turn was taught by Plato and then by Socrates. Understanding this lineage, is this why the Arabs hate anglo-saxons? Is this why the Islamic and Muslim faiths had their own messiahs to counter the anglo-saxon messiah of Jesus?

The bloodline also includes Rameses II (1295-1228 BC), the Egyptian Pharaoh who built the great pyramid in Egypt. His key bloodline came down through the most famous Egyptian queen, Cleopatra (60-30BC), who married the most famous Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, ( this is interesting since Caesar had the power to pardon Jesus ), and bore him a son, who became Ptolemy XIV. She also bore twins with Mark Anthony, who has his own connections to this line and its many offshoots; this bloodline also connects to Herod the Great, the "Herod" of the Jesus stories, and continues to the Roman Piso family.

This bloodline then continues to: Charlemagne (742-814), who ruled as Emperor of the West in the Holy Roman Empire. Then there is a stream of French kings, including Robert II, Philip Ist, II and III, and Louis Ist, II, VI, VII, VIII, VIIII, XIII, IX, XV, and XVI. The latter married Marie Antoinette of this same bloodline. Both were executed in the French Revolution. Now this is where it really gets interesting. King Louis and Marie Antoinette produced a son, who became Daniel Payseur, ( he changed his name for obvious reasons) who came to the United States where he became the secret force behind the Morgan and Carnegie empires and owned vast amounts of real estate, banking, and industrial holdings. This bloodline also includes the Rothchilds, the Rockefellars. Are you seeing the big picture now?

This bloodline also connects to the de Medici family which supported Christopher Columbus and produced Catherine de Medici, the Queen of France who died in 1589. Her doctor was Nostradamus by the way who wrote all of the prophecies. Her bloodline includes Rene d'Anjou, Duke of Lorraine, and the House of Lorraine which employed Nostradamus and Christopher Columbus. The bloodline relatives of the de Medicis and the House of Lorraine, Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Spain, were also sponsors of Columbus when he "discovered" the Americas. I want you to keep in mind, that all of these bloodlines have followed Nostradamus's predictions and prophecies for centuries.

The bloodline also contains the Habsburgs which lead to the the present day bloodline of the Bush family. The Habsburgs were the most powerful family in Europe under the Holy Roman Empire. They are, Geoffrey Plantagenet and the Plantagenet royal dynasty in England. King John, who signed the Magna Carta; King Henry Ist, II, and III, who were extremely close to the Knights Templar, as was King John. Mary Stuart and the Stuart Dynasty, including King James Ist of England. King James wrote the King James version of the Bible basically by himself because he got tired of waiting on 121 translators who kept arguing on the translations of the original herbrew Aramaic texts of the bible. King James was fluent in 14 languages. So the question should be, "is the current King James version of the original manuscripts a true interpretation of the word of God, or those of a mere man who was at "war" with the Roman Catholic Church Empire for the enslavement of men using religion as its' weapon?"

The "war" between the Anglican Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church Empire was actually the greatest war of mankind. It set the false and hypocritical spiritual destiny of man by the words of mere men who interpreted the words of God on how they wanted their religions to be, and not the true word of God. Keep in mind one very important fact. Abraham is the father of all present day religions, including the Christian, Islamic and Muslim faiths. So my question is, "Have you ever once thought how "mere men" have used religion to create "wars" for profit? If one is truly seeking true spirit within and that of God, I strongly urge reading the original true translations of the Aramaic transcripts of the Gospels. Aramaic was the language of that time period and of Jesus. The present "bibles" are no where near what what written in truth.

This same bloodline also includes key Scottish families like the Lords of Galloway and the Comyns. Marie-Louise of Austria, who married Napoleon Bonaparte; Kaiser Wilhelm II, the king of Germany at the time of the First World War; and Maximilian, the Habsburg emperor of Mexico, who died in 1867. On and on it goes into country after country. This bloodline connects into every surviving royal family in Europe, including King Juan Carlos of Spain and the Dutch, Swedish, and Danish royal lines.

The bloodline also includes in this order, King George Ist, II, and III; Edward Ist, II, and III, Queen Victoria; Edward VII; George V and VI; Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Charles and Elizabeth's other offspring, Anne, Andrew and Edward; Princes William and Harry from Charles' "marriage" to Princess Diana. US Presidents that are from this same bloodline are, George Washington, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, William Clinton and George Bush are all named in the charts as strands of this bloodline. It includes George W. Bush Jr., our current President and his brother, Jeb Bush, the Governor of Florida. See the complete lineage chart, HERE.

Why is this bloodline so important? It shows you something very interesting. Power through wealth has been kept in a certain bloodline. Do I need to explain why? It is very obvious. It is something to keep in mind in the upcoming elections this November. The destiny of mankind lies in the true belief of the pursuit of liberty, happiness and justice for all. Is this not what is truly meant by a free spirit and the grace of God. Or has man through different religions and faiths perverted it into something else for their own gains? If mankind truly treated his fellow man like he would want to be treated and love thy neighbor as one loves oneself, would there be a need for any wars? Has man "created" the evil using religion to profit through war to destroy the very evil they created in the first place? For greed? For ego? Why is it that the Catholic Bank in Rome is the wealthiest bank on earth? Why has the other bloodline controlled the other wealth and power in the world, even today they are still at war with one another. These are hard spiritual questions that man must truly begin to answer within. Man must stop listening to "men" and start listening to that silent true voice within. The voice of true spiritual oneness with the Creator. For in it, one will find the real "truth". Let it guide you this November.

God Bless

~ David Lawrence Dewey

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