{"id":38922,"date":"2019-09-20T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T22:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38922"},"modified":"2019-09-20T22:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T22:03:19","slug":"beef-producers-have-a-beef-with-aw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38922","title":{"rendered":"Beef producers have a beef with A&#038;W"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=beefproducers&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/beef.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38923\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/beef-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/beef-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/beef.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba &#8212;<\/strong> We have departed my favorite-sounding Canadian province, but I want to take a quick look back at a story that CTV was covering like a blanket.<\/p>\n<p>It involves beef producers and their, um, <em>beef<\/em> with A&amp;W Burgers and a Canadian Football League team, the Saskatchewan Roughriders, based in Regina, the provincial capital of Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n<p>A&amp;W is a corporate sponsor for the &#8216;Riders. The chain also produces some sort of veggie burger. The Roughriders&#8217; affiliation with A&amp;W and the veggie burger seems to irk the beef producers in Saskatchewan, where ranchers grow a lot of cattle, which are processed into a lot of burgers and assorted cuts of beef.<\/p>\n<p>The Saskatchewan Beef Growers is raising a bit of hell over the veggie burgers, contending that its complaint isn&#8217;t with &#8220;vegan&#8221; dietary lifestyle. The beef growers insist their complaint centers on whether the veggie burgers are made with locally grown vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>To which I say \u2026 uh huh.<\/p>\n<p>I think the Saskatchewan Beef Growers could be a bit more, um, candid in expressing its discontent with the Roughriders and with A&amp;W. A part of me wants to believe the spokesfolks at the Saskatchewan Beef Growers. The rest of me thinks they&#8217;re really miffed at the football team and the burger chain because they aren&#8217;t peddling actual beef burgers.<\/p>\n<p>But \u2026 that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=beefproducers&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba &#8212; We have departed my favorite-sounding Canadian province, but I want to take a quick look back at a story that CTV was covering like a blanket. 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