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 move from a normal
classical type of animal and then we
select that sort of animal based on the
double Nestle and when you say double
muscle do you mean it has to of every
muscle no no no because it looks like it
does in ellonija 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 with 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
muscle 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 to highlight that muscle has
got to high value you see and these are
all gonna be lean cuts and they’re all
for quick cooking are they disease 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 annual media 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
the defective 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 count
that’s a sperm analogy it’s 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 throwing us
off
well they look impressive to me but I’ve
never seen any other well-known 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 move from a normal
classical type of animal and then we
select that sort of animal based on the
double Nestle and when you say double
muscle do you mean it has to of every
muscle no no no because it looks like it
does in ellonija 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 with 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
muscle 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 to highlight that muscle has
got to high value you see and these are
all gonna be lean cuts and they’re all
for quick cooking are they disease 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 annual media 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
the defective 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 count
that’s a sperm analogy it’s 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 throwing us
off
well they look impressive to me but I’ve
never seen any other well-known 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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