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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Newsgroups: can.general,can.politics,talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: Eating killed animals (was Re: Gun Control Petition)
- Message-ID: <viking.725952867@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 05:34:27 GMT
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- achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach) writes:
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- >I'm not sure of the reason's for castration of cattle, but I'll bet Dan can
- >enlighten us. In some other animals, it is to help control aggression, and
- >works rather well.
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- This is the primary reason, since aggression sets in about a year
- after birth. Also, testosterone causes the meat to be places on the
- body in a different pattern and makes the texture somewhat different.
- There is a slight difference in taste, but I don't find it objectionable.
-
- In any event, the latter reasons give a better price at market,
- and the former helps in getting the animals there. Simple economics.
- If I was just keeping them for their first six months or even the first
- year and then selling them, I wouldn't bother castrating. The calving
- operations don't bother, since they sell calces to the feedlots at 6mo.
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- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother >
- < to my girlfriend, about me. "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
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