Chen Zhidong / Tainan Beef Soup: from the ranch to the table

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95% of the beef in Tainan beef soup comes from dairy cows, which are divided into dairy bulls, castrated bulls, eliminated cows and 119 cows, but you don't know what kind of cattle you import.

Everyone knows that Tainan beef mainly comes from Shanhua slaughterhouse, but how can I get to the table from the pasture and slaughterhouse? Where does the cow come from? Who raised it? Who will kill him? How high is the cost of raising cattle? How is the environment for raising cattle? Most people are not clear about these problems.

During this period of time, I interviewed Jiannan Grand Shenzhen and Jiannan Plain cuisine. When I interviewed beef soup, I found that not only the general public did not know the source of beef, but even many beef soup shop owners were unfamiliar with Taiwan's beef industry, so I asked all the way to the source. It took me more than three months to sort out the following information.

Discussing the source of meat ingredients has never been a comfortable topic. I have seen a lot of pictures that I do not want to see these days, but I still try to finish the process. My idea is that since we want to eat it, we have the responsibility to understand it, and only by understanding it can we know how to supervise the whole process and let economic animals have no bitterness in their lives.

The following content mainly interviews meat suppliers, butchers, central animal husbandry associations, veterinarians, beef cattle farms, cheese farms, beef soup makers, animal protection section of the Council of Agriculture and the Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Council of Agriculture and other units and experts. There will be no bloody pictures below, no emphasis on grief, no intention to hurt beef cattle farmers and beef soup operators, and to hide the names of the shops as far as possible, just to make things clear and let people know the source and process of your beef imports.

If there is a chance, I hope it can bring some positive help to the improvement of beef cattle breeding environment. This is also the main purpose of this report.

Where does the beef in Tainan beef soup come from?

Taiwan's native beef accounts for only 6% of Taiwan's beef market, and the rest is imported from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other places, which means that we eat more than 36,000 Taiwanese cattle a year. At present, Taiwan beef cattle are being imported by the Council of Agriculture in conjunction with a number of green farmers and Chiayi Jingjing meat products and other units to import more than 400 Angus trial cattle and heat-resistant Braanges hybrid cattle in Jinmen Animal production Trial. there are also Hengchun Animal Test Institute for many years to promote Taiwan's local beef yellow cattle, and former President Lee Teng-hui is entrusting about 20 Japanese cattle left in Jingtiangang to Hualien Zhaofeng Farm for breeding. More than 95% of the other Tainan beef soup used as food are dairy cows.

These beef cows are mainly divided into three categories: dairy bulls and castrated bulls, eliminated cows, and "119 cattle".

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The feeding environment of dairy bulls is not good, which is a problem of industrial structure and cost. At present, what I can do is to present the face of this relatively unfamiliar industry, and hope that one day, all the processes of raising, auctioning, and slaughtering all poultry and livestock in Taiwan dare to be made public and welcome to take pictures. dare to be open to the public and welcome to take photos, that means that the whole process has been done well enough, rather than that there are always many mysteries and secrets as they are now.

I also hope that in the future, when you drink beef soup, you can ask the shopkeeper more: "where did you get your beef?" What kind of cow is it? Have you seen their breeding environment? " When the shopkeeper feels that the customer is concerned about this issue, they will go back and ask the butcher, and when the butcher feels the pressure, the environment of the beef cattle will be improved. I'm so looking forward to it.

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