How much meat is there on a cow? November 15, 2005 10:18 AM  
Subscribe  How many steaks (or how much meat) is there on a cow
and how long would it take you to eat at the rate of one meal a
day?  In this old article about a man who wears hats made out of
lamb fetuses, someone justifies the killing by saying that if
you ate a steak every day for a year that you'd be killing many
cows. My thinking is that probably this would constitute very
few cows and that his argument is ludicrous and fallacious. But
I need your help to conclusively prove that the random guy in
some old article is basically talking rubbish. posted by
barbelith to food & drink (9 answers total) "An 1,150 lb. steer
doesn’t yield 1,150 lbs. of beef. Onthe average, that steer
yields a 714 lb. carcass. Approximately 146 lbs. of fat and bone
are trimmed offleaving about 568 lbs. of retail beef cuts."
Also gives the weight of each cut in the animal. posted by
milkrate at 10:28 AM on November 15, 2005 [1 favorite]  From
milkrate's link, my conserva