Changing the social structure of cattle mobs in the two weeks prior to slaughter may reduce meat quality, a study has found.
The Beef Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) study looked at the physiological responses of cattle to changed social groups.
Feedlots often draft cattle for slaughter based on different market specifications, retaining those cattle which did not meet guidelines.
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