in the cowshed the man in charge of the
beef herd is at least a little bit hmm
he’s a big fella
am i right yes quite big yeah he’s a 160
160 meter tall yeah if I saw a man like
that yeah but I wouldn’t get this close
to him I don’t think I would think he
was on steroids or something I think it
was at bodybuilding it is 100% natural
whereby let’s say within so many
generation or readers have taken the
best of the best or the more muscle of
the more muscle we moved from a normal
classical type of animal and then we
select that sort of animal based on the
double muscle and when you say double
muscles do you mean it has to of every
muscle no no no cuz it looks like it
does it’s not exactly the same type of
muscle than any other grid except that
in terms of quantity each of these
muscle is by far more developed right
this cow is technically known as a
Belgian blue and it’s the product of
selective breeding selective breeding is
the first stop on our tour of how man is
using science to control nature it’s
used by farmers to enhance desirable
characteristics in their animals in fact
selective breeding is all about managing
sex to create these Belgian blues
over a hundred years farmers have only
allowed the cows and bulls were the
greatest muscle mass to mate and the
result is a bull that weighs over a ton
the animals breeders are keen to show
off the results of their hard work the
bulls are shaved to best display their
muscles what they try to do is to keep
animals in order to highlight the the
older missile you see well so you can
see where all the meat is exactly
exactly but even here where they’ve sort
of trimmed in there yeah to highlight
highlight that muscle which has got too
high value you see and these are all
gonna be lean cuts and they’re all for
quick cooking are they degrees right
that’s right without you when you look
at this you you can’t help thinking of
lunch you know is it healthy the animal
you mean yeah what the animal is as
healthy as another intensive producing
animal so this is about the most
technological that meat can get not the
most technological in terms of
technology we talk about selection
natural selection having achieved that
so what is the science behind the
Belgian blues
there is a gene that regulates the
growth of muscles in cattle these cows
have been selectively bred from animals
that contain a copy of this gene which
doesn’t work as a result their muscles
grow far larger than normal to ensure
that effective gene is passed on sex for
the Belgian blues has been replaced by
technology in the form of artificial
insemination he is a basically a sperm
machine either sperm machine absolutely
it’s very early in the morning for I
understand the semen is now collected is
in the artificial vagina and from there
we process the semen in order to be able
to process artificial insemination on
the code so precise is the technology
involved they can analyze the semen
sperm by sperm to choose the ones they
want so this is what this is testing the
sperm camp
that’s a sperm analysis now checking
let’s say the quality of the sperm we
have been collecting this morning Green
is good because you see that they are
very very mobile and they are looking
forward to to move towards the eggs and
these are not especially muscley sperm
don’t you find that they are very soft
well they look impressive to me but I’ve
never seen any other well know visually
you won’t see any difference there is no
way to find any difference between the
bovine equine and the the other species
now right
beef herd is at least a little bit hmm
he’s a big fella
am i right yes quite big yeah he’s a 160
160 meter tall yeah if I saw a man like
that yeah but I wouldn’t get this close
to him I don’t think I would think he
was on steroids or something I think it
was at bodybuilding it is 100% natural
whereby let’s say within so many
generation or readers have taken the
best of the best or the more muscle of
the more muscle we moved from a normal
classical type of animal and then we
select that sort of animal based on the
double muscle and when you say double
muscles do you mean it has to of every
muscle no no no cuz it looks like it
does it’s not exactly the same type of
muscle than any other grid except that
in terms of quantity each of these
muscle is by far more developed right
this cow is technically known as a
Belgian blue and it’s the product of
selective breeding selective breeding is
the first stop on our tour of how man is
using science to control nature it’s
used by farmers to enhance desirable
characteristics in their animals in fact
selective breeding is all about managing
sex to create these Belgian blues
over a hundred years farmers have only
allowed the cows and bulls were the
greatest muscle mass to mate and the
result is a bull that weighs over a ton
the animals breeders are keen to show
off the results of their hard work the
bulls are shaved to best display their
muscles what they try to do is to keep
animals in order to highlight the the
older missile you see well so you can
see where all the meat is exactly
exactly but even here where they’ve sort
of trimmed in there yeah to highlight
highlight that muscle which has got too
high value you see and these are all
gonna be lean cuts and they’re all for
quick cooking are they degrees right
that’s right without you when you look
at this you you can’t help thinking of
lunch you know is it healthy the animal
you mean yeah what the animal is as
healthy as another intensive producing
animal so this is about the most
technological that meat can get not the
most technological in terms of
technology we talk about selection
natural selection having achieved that
so what is the science behind the
Belgian blues
there is a gene that regulates the
growth of muscles in cattle these cows
have been selectively bred from animals
that contain a copy of this gene which
doesn’t work as a result their muscles
grow far larger than normal to ensure
that effective gene is passed on sex for
the Belgian blues has been replaced by
technology in the form of artificial
insemination he is a basically a sperm
machine either sperm machine absolutely
it’s very early in the morning for I
understand the semen is now collected is
in the artificial vagina and from there
we process the semen in order to be able
to process artificial insemination on
the code so precise is the technology
involved they can analyze the semen
sperm by sperm to choose the ones they
want so this is what this is testing the
sperm camp
that’s a sperm analysis now checking
let’s say the quality of the sperm we
have been collecting this morning Green
is good because you see that they are
very very mobile and they are looking
forward to to move towards the eggs and
these are not especially muscley sperm
don’t you find that they are very soft
well they look impressive to me but I’ve
never seen any other well know visually
you won’t see any difference there is no
way to find any difference between the
bovine equine and the the other species
now right
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