novatech
Well-known member
I'm going to be blunt about this. MY opinion is that from it's inception CAB was designed to boost registration numbers for the Angus Assoc. The vast majority of people that buy CAB assume it is 100% Angus. This is why the Brand name was selected. Scamming the naive American consumer. I would say this was brilliant on their part. Not good as the word good can be connotated with not being the lie that the name it in fact is, IMO. This type of marketing is now common place and has become an acceptable practice, just not in my book. The truth is that CAB has always depended on cross breeding as their main source of quality beef to meet their high standards.
The way I look at it is when people decide on a purebred of any breed they should be concerned with their genetic improvement for stock that will eventually enter a cross breeding program. It has been said many times on these boards that no one breed can do it all. Crossbreeding is the backbone of the cattle industry. Crossbred cattle will outperform straight breds both for quality and volume when taken as a whole. The majority of CAB accepted beef proves what I am saying. Yet the public is led to believe it is all Angus.
So to be honest I could be rationalizing in my mind why the Red Angus are going to be a better choice. So I also try and convince you of the same. I flat cannot support any organization that thinks it is right to deceive the public.
This is me and I am not about judgeing others for what they think is right or wrong.
The way I look at it is when people decide on a purebred of any breed they should be concerned with their genetic improvement for stock that will eventually enter a cross breeding program. It has been said many times on these boards that no one breed can do it all. Crossbreeding is the backbone of the cattle industry. Crossbred cattle will outperform straight breds both for quality and volume when taken as a whole. The majority of CAB accepted beef proves what I am saying. Yet the public is led to believe it is all Angus.
So to be honest I could be rationalizing in my mind why the Red Angus are going to be a better choice. So I also try and convince you of the same. I flat cannot support any organization that thinks it is right to deceive the public.
This is me and I am not about judgeing others for what they think is right or wrong.