How Does Implants Affect Beef Tenderness

Introduction Tenderness is one of the most important components in beef quality. Cattle implants are thought to potentially affect beef tenderness. The influence of implants on beef tenderness can result from different types of implants, what muscles are affected, as well as consumer preferences. This paper will evaluate some of the possible effects implants have on beef tenderness.
Literature Review There are different factors that can be affected by the use of implants. Some of these factors include the gender of the cattle, what breed the cattle are, what muscles are being affected, and the overall growth and development of the cattle. Starting with gender, heifers were experimented on using trenbolone acetate and estradiol on lean maturity,
Consumers perception of using implants have been shown in negative ways. The treatment in livestock today has taken big advances and have been able to show consumers the positive and best treatment the cattle go through each day. Most of the places cattle are today have been updated and are consumer friendly when cattle are worked in these spots. A study was conducted with the ages of different people including non-high school graduate, high school graduate, some college/technical school, college graduate, and post graduate. Each group of people rated their beef experience on the overall quality, beef flavor, juiciness, and tenderness. The overall experiment showed that consumers were not able to distinguish a difference in cattle that had an implant or cattle that did not have an implant given to them. The use of a moderate implant program can help a producer and a consumer in the overall production of meat (Barham et al., 2003). Another study used consumers to test whether or not the use of Revalor-S or Revalor-IS had an affect on shear force and palatability. The results of this study showed that there was little or no difference compared to the control in the consumers being able to tell a difference in the implants being used (Igo et al., 2011). This demonstrates a benefit in the use of using implants since it did not show a difference in
Researchers have observed cattle, mostly steers and heifers, on different implants compared to a control group to see an increase or a decrease in the cattle’s performance. This experiment completed by Parr et al. (2014), tested implants and if they did or did not benefit the steer’s day by day performance. In this research experiment, it exhibited that the implants did not have a significantly positive or negative effect on how the steer’s performed overall. In most of the experiment groups the steers that didn’t have an implant performed slightly better than the steers with implants. In the experiment groups that used zilpaterol hydrochloride the steers that had an implant performed slightly better than the steers without an implant. This indicated that having an implant and an additional supplement can help a producer maximize their profits by decreasing the amount of days to get the steers to their projected