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<blockquote data-quote="Travlr" data-source="post: 1808408" data-attributes="member: 42463"><p>I wouldn't say "most", not by a long shot.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't believe that...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup... now we've gotten to the real reason.</p><p></p><p>Grades of beef carcasses are the same as before CAB. Any animal grading choice is choice regardless of color. CAB is only a marketing program to promote higher prices on black cattle and specifically to sell homozygous black bulls. What is weird is that the public at large has bought into the hype, and even weirder that industry terminal feeder buyers have bought in. They are paying a premium on black calves that will never grade choice and discounting not-black animals that will grade prime. And it's become accepted practice. If I was a large meat packer I'd be buying all the discounted cattle and I'd avoid anything black that was over the prices paid for the non-black cattle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Travlr, post: 1808408, member: 42463"] I wouldn't say "most", not by a long shot. I don't believe that... Yup... now we've gotten to the real reason. Grades of beef carcasses are the same as before CAB. Any animal grading choice is choice regardless of color. CAB is only a marketing program to promote higher prices on black cattle and specifically to sell homozygous black bulls. What is weird is that the public at large has bought into the hype, and even weirder that industry terminal feeder buyers have bought in. They are paying a premium on black calves that will never grade choice and discounting not-black animals that will grade prime. And it's become accepted practice. If I was a large meat packer I'd be buying all the discounted cattle and I'd avoid anything black that was over the prices paid for the non-black cattle. [/QUOTE]
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