16—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 24, 1973
Beef Grading System Changes Proposed
Proposed changes in the
federal beef grading system that
will voluntarily help stabilize
consumer beef prices without
sacrificing beef quality have
been recommended to govern
ment and industry leaders by
American-International Ghar
olais Assn, of Houston.
“The consumer stands to gain
most from these proposed
revisions, which are many years
overdue,” stated J Scott Hen
derson, executive r cretary of
the 18,000-member ef breed
registry.
“The past few years have seen
the emergence in consumer
preferences for young, lean beef
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of optimum palatgbility of
flavor,” he said. “This is beef
that has been finished on grain,
and more recently is young beef
without excessive fat cover. All
beef breeds, through their per
formance-measuring programs,
advocate the production of this
type of beef. Yet, present grading
systems penalize those younger,
leaner, more flavorful beef by
requiring larger and unnecessary
amounts of marbling.”
Henderson pointed out that
researchers agree that “mar
bling” - or tiny flecks of fat in
termingled within the beef
tissues - has essentially no effect
on palatability, tenderness or
flavor of younger beef. However,
marbling and maturity are the
major criteria for present
grading standards.
These larger amounts of
marbling as required by present
standards do little but add
feeding time and costs to
finishing an animal and sub
sequently increases beef costs to
the consumer, he added.
The Charolais proposal gives
more consideration for carcasses
from younger cattle, the kind that
is being sought and produced
throughout the industry, the
breed executive said. At the same
time, the proposed revisions
make it more difficult for
finished cattle in older age
brackets to reach preferred
market grades, thus encouraging
the feeder to market younger
cattle.
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Henderson explained that by
giving more consideration to the
kind of younger cattle favored by
beef performance-measuring
programs, feeders will be able to
shorten feeding periods by 20 or
more days, eliminating the high
cost of laying on undesirable
external fats necessary to
provide “marbling” requred for
higher grades. Thus, an
estimated 15 percent more cattle
can be finished to preferred
weights on the same amount of
feed.
Shortened feeding periods will
reduce finishing costs of live beef
with savings on feed, labor and
interest costs, and the retailer
can eliminate costs now required
to trim off and discard the ex
ternal fats now placed on the
animal in order to reach present
preferred grading requirements,
he added.
Progressive beef industry
leaders for many years have
described the current grading
system as “antiquated” and one
that places more emphasis upon
older overfat and inefficient
cattle than it did for the younger
cattle now being produced, and
has not kept pace with changes
within the industry.
The Charolais proposals would
reduce the amount of marbling or
tiny flecks of fat within beef
tissues on younger slaughter
cattle and increase the amount of
marbling in older, less tender
cattle. Thus, the feeder can finish
beef in shorter periods at
the trough.
Housewives turn with disfavor
upon heavy layers of external
fats, which must be trimmed and
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discarded by the retailer. Yet the
cost of that trimmed waste fat is
borne by the consumer m the
prices paid for beef.
“She also is reckoning with
possible ill effects of high
cholestrol levels in overfat beef,
giving even more emphasis to the
shift to production of quality,
young, lean beef,” Henderson
continued.
“The beef grading system
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started as a standard for market
reporting. It has been
erroneously developed and
dictated to the American con
sumer as a measure of
palatability. It is time that the
federal government and the beef
industry revise this antiquated
system to recognize the con
sumer’s preference for tender,
lean beef at a reduced cost,”
Henderson declared.
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