FINAL Beef Additive Alert - Demand USDA Ban Performance-enhancing Cattle Drugs in 4-H
http://www.beefadditivealert.org Beef Additive Alert (tm), is a national consumer awareness/action campaign, based in cattle country Nebraska, striving to maintain USA beef quality, integrity & consistency. Our focus now is aggressive performance-enhancing cattle drugs used in 4-H and FFA youth development programs.
Zilpaterol and Ractopamine are controversial FDA-approved muscle-bulking cattle feed additives used for show ring success. Beef Additive Alert ™ is the first to report that children, alarmingly, are a target market of these drugs billed as the "Competitive Advantage You Can't Win Without" and "Essential Show Feeds". We are distressed at the message that beta agonist cattle doping in the show ring sends our nation's impressionable youngsters. It is not okay to cheat to win! Period.
We're calling on the USDA's 4-H program & the U.S. Department of Education-led Future Farmers of America (FFA) organization to implement an immediate beta agonist anti-doping, anti-cheating ban.
Compounded with our concerns, Animal Welfare Scientist Temple Grandin has observed beta agonist-fed cattle with heat stress, including panting, hoof problems and trouble walking. Beta agonist drugs are so controversial, the 27-member European Union, Russia, China, Taiwan and 160 other countries ban or restrict them. Please view our PSA NOW! Spread the word. Share your voice on Facebook, Twitter & Google+. Finally, sign our petition at change.org.
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Produced by Susan Stern, Stern PR Marketing Omaha. http://www.sternprmarketing.com
Copyright 2013. Beef Additive Alert (tm). All rights reserved.
Zilpaterol and Ractopamine are controversial FDA-approved muscle-bulking cattle feed additives used for show ring success. Beef Additive Alert ™ is the first to report that children, alarmingly, are a target market of these drugs billed as the "Competitive Advantage You Can't Win Without" and "Essential Show Feeds". We are distressed at the message that beta agonist cattle doping in the show ring sends our nation's impressionable youngsters. It is not okay to cheat to win! Period.
We're calling on the USDA's 4-H program & the U.S. Department of Education-led Future Farmers of America (FFA) organization to implement an immediate beta agonist anti-doping, anti-cheating ban.
Compounded with our concerns, Animal Welfare Scientist Temple Grandin has observed beta agonist-fed cattle with heat stress, including panting, hoof problems and trouble walking. Beta agonist drugs are so controversial, the 27-member European Union, Russia, China, Taiwan and 160 other countries ban or restrict them. Please view our PSA NOW! Spread the word. Share your voice on Facebook, Twitter & Google+. Finally, sign our petition at change.org.
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Produced by Susan Stern, Stern PR Marketing Omaha. http://www.sternprmarketing.com
Copyright 2013. Beef Additive Alert (tm). All rights reserved.