As others already answered, lean meat weights less, therefore it's less money per cattle. The majority of the fat on cattle is in-between the muscle fibers.
Right. You don't want big blobs of fat that someone's just going to cut off- but you don't want a totally dry steak, either. You want the meat to be nicely "marbled", fat and oil distributed throughout.
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As others already answered, lean meat weights less, therefore it's less money per cattle. The majority of the fat on cattle is in-between the muscle fibers.
Right. You don't want big blobs of fat that someone's just going to cut off- but you don't want a totally dry steak, either. You want the meat to be nicely "marbled", fat and oil distributed throughout.
Since when? Are cows somehow the opposite of humans in that their fat weighs more than their muscle?