An Alberta restaurant is attempting to establish a record for the world’s longest barbecue in an effort to support the ailing beef industry and the province’s food banks.
As a member of a small family farm in Athabasca, Dallas Ramey knows the impact of BSE on producers. As a restaurant owner, Ramey hopes having a “monster barbecue” to move thousands of kilograms of Alberta beef may be a way to help the beef industry.
“It’s one small way a farm kid can make an impact,” said Ramey, owner of Diamond Legends Café in Camrose, where the barbecue will be held Oct. 27-30.
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Money raised from the four-day event will be given to the Alberta beef help fund established last year to buy Canadian beef and give it to the province’s food bank network.
“We’re helping people in need at the same time we’re moving one hell of a pile of Alberta beef,” Ramey said.
Since the BSE crisis began more than 16 months ago, many organizations have held barbecues to raise money to help the livestock industry, but few have been on the grand scale Ramey envisions.
“We have plans of having a monster barbecue to try and raise as much money as possible,” he said.
“There’s something about trying to break a record that attracts people.”
