How does the color of a cows utter affect the taste of the meat?
By uath13
@uath13 (8192)
United States
March 23, 2011 12:36pm CST
Every day you see comercials like "made from 100% angus beef" & such but do you know what that actually means?
Out west they have a breed of cattle known as the black angus. The particular disctinction this cow has from most other varieties is it's black utter. Most other breeds of cattle have a tendancy of getting sunburned utters during the winters out there as the sun is reflected off the snow. The pigment of the angus's utter helps protect it. Does this actually make the meat taste any different? Well....No.
So why do they make such a big deal about angus beef?
It's a marketing ploy that was developed years ago. The big ranches were looking for a way to squeeze out the smaller local competition. By hyping up their product they managed to make people believe it was somehow better. In truth if I were to make you a burger from a locally grown & butchered cow & prepared it the same way as an angus burger you wouldn't know or be able to tell the difference.
How many of you have fallen for this marketing ploy & not realized it.
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@topffer (42155)
• France
23 Mar 11
I never ate a burger of angus beef, but I am not very surprised by this fake label of quality. We have some here also. Customers have often preconceived ideas of what is good or not -- in an areas people prefer red apples, and in another yellow apples : it is the same for meat --. Breeders play often with this, and meat businessmen are not angels
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@weasel81 (2496)
• Australia
24 Mar 11
i work in the agriculture industry, but im in milk production. really we dont know what kind of cow we are eating, it all gets mixed in together. there are beef cattle, that are for meat production and then you have the dairy/milk production breeds. some meat is more tender than others, like the waguu was really popular out here a few years back. for the marbling in the meat and it was supposed to be tender. but then i find organic lamb is nice and tender. i take pride in the fact my parents are organic farmers and we breed lamb for the meat market. the only thing we dont do is eat pet lambs we've raised, apart from that it is nothing for us to have a beast killed and put in the frezzer. we need to eat meat, and it's cheaper to do it our selves.
