I found this image on and while it’s UK-specific, it’s business as usual throughout the developed world’s agriculture processes. Calf A young bovine, either male or female, up to one year of age. While there is very rarely good press on the meat industry when one investigates how things are done, I can’t help but be disturbed by some of these doses of reality. Cattle that are intended for meat production. It gives the word “expendable” new meaning when industry and gender match up against a newborn and they’re thrown away according to best practices.
It is suggested that results of age/tenderness studies depend on the age range, differences in carcass weight, the muscle(s) chosen and the cooling rate of muscles and hence on chilling conditions, cooking conditions and the method(s) used to assess the. In a previous post we talked about chick culling and how awful it is, but I didn’t fully realize we do THE EXACT SAME THING to several other animals, like male dairy cows that are slaughtered having lived. In contrast, Warner-Bratzler peak force values of LDA muscles decreased by half linearly, as animal age increased from 9 to 423 months, a reflection of less postmortem shortening in samples from the heavier carcasses of older animals. 15 months - Centre permanent incisors appear. The following is a guide: 12 months - All the calf teeth are in place. Drought or grazing on sandy country will also affect rate of wear.
While many of us have seen a news piece here or there that details the hormones and antibiotics that chickens and cows are given to get them to grow as fast as possible so that there’s a shorter span between their birth and their appearance on our plates and it makes some degree of sense (keep reading, I’m not agreeing that it’s acceptable in any way)…for these businesses to maximize their profits they need the animal to sell for as much money as possible per pound with the least amount of time spent growing and consuming their resources (emphasis on ‘their’ and behold, we see a serious philosophical issue with the world we live in), few have posed the question: when are these animals being slaughtered, exactly? I wasn’t aware that cows can live up to twenty years, nor was I aware that the average age of beef cattle when slaughtered was 5% of their potential lifespan (1-2.5 years). There is controversy on the reliability of attempting to tell the age of cattle by their teeth, as rate of wear can be affected by the forage that is grazed. One of the most fascinating aspects of investigating a topic is the questions it raises that one tends to overlook for any number of reasons throughout their life and why these questions weren’t posed from the start.
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