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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 676352" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>This thread got me thinking - are we being fair to McDonald's.</p><p></p><p>I went to their website, looked at a lot of pages and watch their video about Lopez Foods, a company in Oklahoma that seems like they supply all of McD's US hamburger patties.</p><p></p><p>Lopez appears to a good PROCESSING operation. The Oklahoma State Flag waves prominently at the beginning.</p><p></p><p>However the ONLY reference to the actual beef is when they show and describe "2,000lb boxes" of beef parts on pallets in the back of a truck being unloaded into the Lopez plant.</p><p></p><p>There is no mention ANYWHERE of where that beef comes from. It is claimed to be USDA inspected but I think if carcasses are imported from overseas and broken down in a US plant they can be said to be "USDA inspected".</p><p></p><p>Like I said, I want to be fair to McD's. However there is NOWHERE on their website that they come out and say where their beef is raised. The thing about there not being enough "grassfed" beef in the US to meet their needs is just hogwash. The Snopes article quotes McD's in 2002 that US feedlot beef is "not lean enough" for them.</p><p></p><p>If McDonald's said to any of the US beef associations that they wanted to buy US-source grassfed beef I suspect they would have it on their doorstep very quickly. The Snopes article says something like the imported beef was 15 cents a pound cheaper than domestic in 2002 which is evidently when the sourcing changed. I think there is the heart of the matter. Somehow it is cheaper to send beef around the world than to use US beef? Yet US customers' money is good enough for them, just not our beef?</p><p></p><p>In a quarter pounder then 1/4 of 15 cents is about 4 cents per pound. McD's seems to be using imported beef then to save 4 cents on a 1/4 pounder?</p><p></p><p>I don't understand why they can't source their beef in the country or countries where they are selling their beef. If I'm wrong I would appreciate McD's stating clearly where they (or Lopez) do source their beef for their US stores.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 676352, member: 7509"] This thread got me thinking - are we being fair to McDonald's. I went to their website, looked at a lot of pages and watch their video about Lopez Foods, a company in Oklahoma that seems like they supply all of McD's US hamburger patties. Lopez appears to a good PROCESSING operation. The Oklahoma State Flag waves prominently at the beginning. However the ONLY reference to the actual beef is when they show and describe "2,000lb boxes" of beef parts on pallets in the back of a truck being unloaded into the Lopez plant. There is no mention ANYWHERE of where that beef comes from. It is claimed to be USDA inspected but I think if carcasses are imported from overseas and broken down in a US plant they can be said to be "USDA inspected". Like I said, I want to be fair to McD's. However there is NOWHERE on their website that they come out and say where their beef is raised. The thing about there not being enough "grassfed" beef in the US to meet their needs is just hogwash. The Snopes article quotes McD's in 2002 that US feedlot beef is "not lean enough" for them. If McDonald's said to any of the US beef associations that they wanted to buy US-source grassfed beef I suspect they would have it on their doorstep very quickly. The Snopes article says something like the imported beef was 15 cents a pound cheaper than domestic in 2002 which is evidently when the sourcing changed. I think there is the heart of the matter. Somehow it is cheaper to send beef around the world than to use US beef? Yet US customers' money is good enough for them, just not our beef? In a quarter pounder then 1/4 of 15 cents is about 4 cents per pound. McD's seems to be using imported beef then to save 4 cents on a 1/4 pounder? I don't understand why they can't source their beef in the country or countries where they are selling their beef. If I'm wrong I would appreciate McD's stating clearly where they (or Lopez) do source their beef for their US stores. Jim [/QUOTE]
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