Bovine to beef

Dear Editor,

Do ye wonder what the fuit stickers cost? Consider, if them and animal IDs from calf to grill, efforts been used to tag aliens; (911 might not have happened).

A cow had twins; one sold as a nurse calf, then grower, weaner, feeder and feedlot; the other stayed in the herd 'til slaughter. Taxing any animal more than once is unfair and unjust!

Enthusiasm, plus a volunteered $1 -- doeth more than $10 -- seized and spent! The cheat-off crowd's goal is checkoff with no proof of profit. (Could the radio, TV and newspapers fain as cheat-off crowd force sell ads to thee?)

Those who tried exotic cattle, other innovations, risked to make a profit. The claims, expenses and choice of promotion.

Of everyone involved in production, have a prior constitutional right over the cheat-off crowd's monopoly. How have they profited thee?

Hath a nation changed their Gods which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Jer. 2:11.

P.S. Why don't Jack Maddux and his cheat-off cronies offer competition at his hometown barbecue?

Frank Sowers,

Benkelman