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USA: A Ground Beef Nation. Challenge for breeding programs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Flatbroke" data-source="post: 1203749" data-attributes="member: 18114"><p>There is a lot of truth in the article. First of all the average Joe can not afford a Prime steak at a steak house anymore at least not very often. Yet we continue to raise the animals as if they will end up center of plate at a high end steak house. In the long run it is unsustainable to ship the cattle to a feed lot process them in a huge center and then ship them back all over the country. The small butcher shop (local will make a come back) and there will always be those who buy the Porter House at the butcher but the vast majority of the purchases will be Hamburger. I have a roast for the holidays (Prime Rib), they call it, cost 86 dollars for 10 pounds and it looks good but it is actually from a carcass that graded choice or even select. The butcher at the store was not sure but it definitely was not Prime. There is a very small number that ever reach prime now a days........that is a result of the continual chase of frame size by the breeders. More animals reached prime in 1960 than now, yes we are headed towards a ground beef nation!! :hide:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flatbroke, post: 1203749, member: 18114"] There is a lot of truth in the article. First of all the average Joe can not afford a Prime steak at a steak house anymore at least not very often. Yet we continue to raise the animals as if they will end up center of plate at a high end steak house. In the long run it is unsustainable to ship the cattle to a feed lot process them in a huge center and then ship them back all over the country. The small butcher shop (local will make a come back) and there will always be those who buy the Porter House at the butcher but the vast majority of the purchases will be Hamburger. I have a roast for the holidays (Prime Rib), they call it, cost 86 dollars for 10 pounds and it looks good but it is actually from a carcass that graded choice or even select. The butcher at the store was not sure but it definitely was not Prime. There is a very small number that ever reach prime now a days........that is a result of the continual chase of frame size by the breeders. More animals reached prime in 1960 than now, yes we are headed towards a ground beef nation!! :hide: [/QUOTE]
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