Human civilization is constantly advancing, science and technology are also evolving, people's lives are getting richer and richer, however, as a "higher animal" standing at the top of the food chain, people's other desires are becoming more and more intense after the basic food and clothing are solved, and the most direct victims of these desires are often those animals and plants. Today, I will take you to know what we have done to satisfy human desire to eat meat.
Belgian Blue Bull
"Steak" should be the most acceptable to Chinese a Western food, compared to burgers, fried chicken, Chinese think that steak is still very healthy, and beef has always been a kind of meat that people think has a high nutritional value, compared to pork, chicken, the price of beef is also high, in the elegant Western restaurant, eat a steak, for modern people, is already a high-pressure pursuit, is a symbol of the status of the upper class.
However, there is harm in trading, and people's pursuit of beef has spawned an industrial chain, in which an artificial "cow devil" was born, which is the Belgian blue bull.
Belgian blue bull is a kind of beef cattle breed native to Belgium, they are not the same as the average cow, mainly manifested in extreme growth muscles, their waist, hips, shoulders, back muscles are much more developed than the average cow, an adult male Belgian blue bull weighs up to 1200 kg (the heaviest can reach 3 tons), height is less than one meter five, and because the muscles of the Belgian blue cow are not obtained through exercise, due to its precocious characteristics, so the beef muscle fiber is thinner, the protein content is high, Less cholesterol, low heat energy, greatly meet people's consumption needs, the following picture takes you to feel the Belgian Blue Bull perverted muscles.
The muscles of the Belgian Blue Bull were once hard to believe, was it a hormone injection, or a genetically modified animal? In fact, neither is true, and the direct reason for the Belgian Blue Bull's muscularity is that one of their protein genes does not function properly. This protein, called "muscle growth suppressin," is a hormone that regulates muscle growth.
Perhaps, you will think of such a developed muscle, then this cow should be extremely strong, the average animal does not dare to provoke it, then you are very wrong, such a developed muscle, not only did not make the Belgian blue bull stronger, but the stronger the more painful, why is this?
Because, the skeleton of the Belgian Blue Bull is very small, it is more difficult to support the muscles of this body, to know that the Belgian Blue Bull is about 10% less than the general cow bone, and the muscle is 20% more than the average cow, and so many muscles, it needs to consume a lot of energy, so the Belgian Blue Bull also has to eat and eat non-stop, a day can gain up to 3 kilograms, once the food is not enough, the strength can not be supported, the small skeleton is more difficult to support a muscle, so the stronger it is, the more painful it is.
The Belgian Blue Cow is native to Belgium and was also raised to provide milk and beef at the time, which is not much different from ordinary cattle. However, by the 19th century, it was crossed with the shorthorn cattle introduced to Britain, and this "artificial cow demon king" came out, simply saying that humans intervened in its natural reproduction, but according to their own wishes, hybridized a new species of cattle, which was fascinated by it as soon as it was introduced.
British shorthorn cattle
It can be understood that the Belgian Blue Bull is actually suffering from a genetic defect disease, of course, since it is a disease, from the perspective of evolution, the unfavorable genes will gradually be eliminated, but it is not profitable, how can people let this "beautiful" thing disappear, in order to overcome the genetic instability of the offspring, people use directional reproduction to consolidate the quality of cattle, to get more beef, larger and stronger Belgian Blue Bull, at this point, the Belgian Blue Bull has finally become the "Stallone" of the cattle industry.
A few joys and a few sorrows, while the people harvested a good harvest, the Belgian Blue Bull paid a high price.
Due to its large size, in addition to the pain of being unable to support under the skeleton mentioned above, it also has to face a series of health problems, which are the first to be faced by pregnancy and childbirth. Due to the overdevelopment of its muscles, the calf is also a large man in the mother's belly, although the cow is large, but the size of the pelvis is small, natural childbirth is almost impossible for them, caesarean section has become the only option, a cow can even have a dozen caesarean sections in her lifetime, and its pain can be imagined.
Not only that, newborn calves, there will also be some congenital defects, such as: large tongue, heart and lungs, bones, joints and other diseases, which means that they will live a painful life for a lifetime, the slaughter rate of Belgian blue cattle is as high as 71%, for them may be a painful life, it is better to die, death may be a relief for them.
In fact, in Europe and the United States, the treatment of other breeds of cattle is not as good as there, the purpose of cattle breeding is basically beef and milk, ordinary cows in order to faster long meat, need to take a certain amount of drugs regularly, is sick, will only be given a large dose of antibiotic injections, not to cure the disease but to let it live into the slaughterhouse, dairy cows are more miserable, cows produce milk like humans, must be pregnant and breastfeeding, for this reason, cows will be forced to become pregnant again and again, cubs will be taken away shortly after birth, bulls are sold as calves The cow will repeat the same fate as the mother.
Fistula cattle
In fact, not only the Belgian Blue Bull, in order to meet the desires of consumers, merchants have also sharpened their heads and studied batches of strange varieties: for example, in order to obtain more delicious foie gras, a 30 cm long tube is forcibly inserted into the stomach of the goose, less than 10 seconds is poured into 3 kg of food, and the calories consumed before it becomes fat foie gras. For example, in order to better observe the digestion of cattle, people have also transformed the "fistula cow", by opening a "small window" on the rumen of the cow so that some digestive tract diseases (such as rumen accumulation, flatulence, etc.) of the cow can be directly treated.
Workers are feeding the geese
Although human beings, as the masters of the world, as the masters at the top of the food chain, the meat and milk of animals may be indispensable to us, and the laws of survival in nature may be cruel, but the difference between humans and animals is not emotional, only hope that farms can be more scientific and formal, minimize the pain of animals, after all, they have done nothing wrong, and have been serving human beings.