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MercTech -> RE: A different kind of pet (1/3/2011 8:17:29 AM)
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Interesting color pattern. Having grown up around cattle, I can state from personal observation that a panda like color pattern is seen but infrequently.
Now, If I were going to raise a rare breed, it would be the Park White; the breed that Henry VIII knighted as "Sir Loin of Beef" as it was so exceptional in taste. I've had a rib roast from a Park White only once, and the old musical bride fellow may have been right.
You don't see Park Whites raised for beef because the newer hybrids like the Angus are 14-18 months to marketable weight and legacy breeds like the Park white are 21-24 months to market weight. I rather laugh at the "Angus" craze going on lately. The Angus is a hybrid designed for rapid weight gain, not for flavor. In other words, it is cheaper stock to raise for market and not a "premium" meat. Of the current commercial breeds, the Charolais is more to my taste.. and, please, grass fed and not corn forced.
I eat less and less beef, but dang it, sometimes nothing satisfies like a prime rib or decent ribeye steak.
Stefan
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