This is for the general information of everyone on the CattleToday Forum: Eric Grant IS the Official and Legitimate "Public Relations Manager" for the American Angus Association. That is his Professional Employment. He is responsible for the "I AM ANGUS" programs which appear on RFD-TV. He is personally responsible for and filmed most, if not all, of the segments on that effort. He is a personal friend of mine, and I can guarantee to you that he is not deserving of snide and sarcastic comments, not only because of the work he produces, but because it is his duty and responsibility! He is a "Professional" in every sense of the word, not only for what he does, but how he approaches his assignments and his "Creative Media" efforts. He personally designed the Public Relations and Advertising agenda for the AAA, and is doing a spectacular job for the Angus business - as well as for the Beef Industry as a whole in general!
Think about this: every breeder of Beef Cattle in the Beef Business can honor and respect Eric Grant for bringing to the minds of every person who witnesses any part of the Videos and Print Advertising that appears on Television and any Periodical that carries the various stories which he produces, because it helps the general public to understand what YOUR business consists of, and how YOU are bringing beef to the public dinner tables - thereby helping to INCREASE the demand for BEEF! Forget your petty and childish quarreling, bickering, squabbling, and contentious and antagonistic attitudes toward another beef breed or another beef breeder - or even another breeder of your own breed of cattle! There is enough anger and disgusting crap going on in our own Government for you to take out your ire on rather than to waste your efforts on our own fellow breeders!
I understand the competitiveness between the different Beef Breeds, BELIEVE ME! I have lived through more senseless rhetoric for and against the various and supposed differences in beef breeds and individuals than most of the members of this Forum, and I can attest to the fact that most of it is specious (that means "seeming to be sound and correct without really being so"). "There are more differences between indviduals of the same breed than between GOOD individuals of different breeds"!
I would like to suggest that we concentrate on calling a truce on throwing brickbats toward each other, and devote our energies toward improving our own cattle, whatever the breed - OR the Association - may be.
Just My Opinion.
DOC HARRIS
