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<blockquote data-quote="djinwa" data-source="post: 1394718" data-attributes="member: 8265"><p>At some point, due to the fraud of CAB, and animal welfare issues, something will have to change.</p><p></p><p>The part of CAB I get a kick out of is the word CERTIFY. I mean, when you certify something, you give complete assurance that it is true. So to certify that a CAB animal is actually angus, but is not, is complete and utter fraud. Excuses can be made, but how would it look if I painted a Mitsubishi tractor green and certified it as John Deere?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, black never has been cool, but hot. Black hides are an undesirable trait because of heat stress, as animal scientists are making more obvious. So black was never a good product. Might as well promote prolapses or bad udders or bad feet or poor gain or whatever. We ignore bad traits when we think they make us money. Of course, it is much easier to see the check at the salebarn than the costs of heat stress, so few care.</p><p></p><p>When thousands of cattle died in Iowa from heat, studies showed in some pens only 20% of the cattle were black, but they represented 80% of death loss. And I recall some years ago a poster here lost 600+ steers from heat and the blacks had 5 times the death rate. How many of these cases before major media attention happens?</p><p></p><p>Someone on another site posted this article.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052816300281?np=y&npKey=d8a3e8d9acc87cd499fe3fa195b0786cd58daa0992ad910417888051dbe02d86" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 51dbe02d86</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djinwa, post: 1394718, member: 8265"] At some point, due to the fraud of CAB, and animal welfare issues, something will have to change. The part of CAB I get a kick out of is the word CERTIFY. I mean, when you certify something, you give complete assurance that it is true. So to certify that a CAB animal is actually angus, but is not, is complete and utter fraud. Excuses can be made, but how would it look if I painted a Mitsubishi tractor green and certified it as John Deere? Actually, black never has been cool, but hot. Black hides are an undesirable trait because of heat stress, as animal scientists are making more obvious. So black was never a good product. Might as well promote prolapses or bad udders or bad feet or poor gain or whatever. We ignore bad traits when we think they make us money. Of course, it is much easier to see the check at the salebarn than the costs of heat stress, so few care. When thousands of cattle died in Iowa from heat, studies showed in some pens only 20% of the cattle were black, but they represented 80% of death loss. And I recall some years ago a poster here lost 600+ steers from heat and the blacks had 5 times the death rate. How many of these cases before major media attention happens? Someone on another site posted this article. [url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190052816300281?np=y&npKey=d8a3e8d9acc87cd499fe3fa195b0786cd58daa0992ad910417888051dbe02d86]http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 51dbe02d86[/url] [/QUOTE]
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