http://www.nextnature.net/2011/06/blue-belgian-and-beefy/

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww306/kronus126/64E78027-799C-406E-A9C2-A99E46E31741-1359-00000251E15711D3.jpg

This bad boy is making its way to your table in growing numbers. While it is claimed to be 100% natural it seems unbelievable. The calf cannot be born naturally, it must be by c-section. It's just another on a growing list of animals that couldn't survive in nature without human interference. All to feed a overblown populous.

That's a lot of steak......I'm gonna need a bigger stomach.

I was going to say I'm happy to be a vegetarian, but then I remembered genetically modified plants and got depressed. I think I'll stay out of food topics for a while

Marbling must be horrible...
I usually avoid steaks with low to no marbling because I keep thinking the cow had a genetic defect.

Most cows I usually see in Texas are either Angus or Longhorn which I haven't seen for quite awhile...
I have seen signs for American Wagyu, Beefmaster, Brangus, Hereford breeds on some properties around central Texas.

Back in the day, about 1990, I worked for a company that sold Champion Breed Bull seman. While I know how they collected the sample, don't ask me to tell you.

Anyway, in the sales brochure, they showed the national champion bull from 1980. It was all big and fat and rolly polly. With the trend to lower fat diets, they started breeding more muscular cows. The national champion bull for 1990 was all muscular and ripped. Think the difference between Arnold when he was Mr. Universe and when we was the Ex-Governor.

The problem with Beef, one that this cow overcomes, is how much we have to feed it to get meat. It takes about 15 pounds of feed to make 1 pound of beef, 6 pounds of feed for 1 pound of pork and 5 pounds of feed for 1 pound of chicken, the Department of Agriculture estimates. I think the Belgian Blue can grow a pound with much less feed than a cow. Probably down around the rate of pigs. That alone makes it worth the effort.

So it's basically the bovine equivalent of a Bully Whippet, interesting.

Kinda looks like a Brahmin (although just one head... for now.)

How does it taste though?

Couldn't care less what the size is if it tastes like crap.

My thoughts exactly!

Essentially, and I was tempted to post a video from youtube about this some time ago. However, I wasn't too sure how "acceptable" it was to show the "junk" of an animal on the boards. They basically go into detail about how they created this monstrosity. It is all pretty legit, no genetic tampering, just good ol fashion gene culling through selective breeding apparently.

Only thing that doesn't truly surprise me are the animal rights activists and their complaining that breeding these things is "cruel."

From the sound of it, I think this maybe the same gene responsible for the Tigon's/Liger's unusually large size. Though all of those animals, maybe a small margin if even possible, are born sterile so no chance of breeding.

Wonder if those animal rights activists will launch an investigation to say eating that meat causes problems in humans with over beefy people, creating heart problems, increased testosterone levels, etc... ?

Like dried out meatloaf.

I would assume this is accurate. I can't imagine it would taste good at all.

They could not breed without human intervention as they are too big to leave through the birth canol. Just like Bulldogs, none of those can be born without humans (doing a C-Section), these cows have to be delivered via C-section.

However, they seem to breed just like any other cow/bull combo. It all starts with glances and smoldering stares over the feed trough.



The Article I saw on Yahoo said the meat is quite tasty. I have eaten various animals, like Yak, Buffalo and Bison that are breed for meat and they all taste just fine. The diet of the animal has more to with how it tastes than it's breed.

I think they go more for artificial insemination now due to STDs
So a guy with a straw really

The Texel sheep -also mentioned, is very tasty

I don't care? Enough sauce and Beans i could care less where it came from

It's all Artificial Insemination. Has been for decades. Much faster way to impregnate few hundred or thousand cows is to walk around with a Sperm Injector. Yes, I saw this part of the process too when i was working for that company I talked about in an earlier post.

Giant tubes from Walmart.

Who says i shop at Walmart?
I may live in Oklahoma doesnt exactly mean im a hillybilly

Dat ass.

I ate meat from Walmart It was hard to choose over the blackened raw "steakhouse" steaks and the ones that probably had e.coli

....No - Comment.


Doubt there's any animal in this day and age that isn't Artificially Inseminated on a farm. It seems way faster with slightly less chance of rejection.

It's even weirder with Chickens. One farmer creates the eggs, another farmer incubates them and hatches them, then another farmer grows them, then they are sent to the slaughter factory. I though the birth to final growth would be handled in one place.

It's like an assembly line for lifeforms.

It makes sense. One farmer can focus on getting their single step as efficient as possible.

I am guessing it is because of space requirements and disease prevention....&--#60;quip about putting all your eggs in one basket&--#62;
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So this was in a news article on yahoo? would have been nice to see it instead of a picture.