Gigantic Belgian Monster Cows
Originating in 19th century Belgium by crossing local cattle with British cattle, the Belgian Blue cattle are gigantic bovine wonders. Their enormous size and muscle mass, sometimes called "double muscling," is a naturally occurring mutation of the gene for myostatin, a protein that regulates muscle growth. This mutation results in accelerated lean muscle growth.
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Those are not cows they are bulls. They are not sick or even freaks just bulls. you might think the testicles would be a dead giveaway.
@ Sohail Khan , first off there is something called a food health commison , wich checkes the condition of food from each batch.Now if they gave these animals steroids , nuclliar waste ( wich is completly rediculous , because the cows would die before maturing ) . It would show up in there test results and the farmer would be procecuted for poisoning food supply's. Furthermore i am a Belgian and these " blauw vlees koeien " bleu meat cows are actualy the carier of one of the best , meat labels wich is "Meritus". They suply high end restaurants . So next time before u comment things like these , please actuly READ whot is written and do some research before commenting ill things. thank you and byebye
They look like baseball players in the 90's.
Nice job Sohail Kahn, way to read the article properly. Nice pictures, does anyone know if the meat is tougher since the muscles are bigger and probably more rough than the regular cows in the U.S.? I call the regular because I know nothing about bulls or cows.
@ Sohail Khan: These cows arent fed steroids nor nuclear waste, they just dont have a natural occuring gene to stop their muscles from growing, it has been achived trough selecting particuarly big cows and then breeding them. like you have done with peas and corn..
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