Aren black cattle better?
The media told the consumers they wanted black cattle, and therefore the industry did what it could to give the consumers what they wanted. It used to be that the majority of black beef cattle were Angus. Now there are so many different breeds that have black, you dont always know what youre looking at simply by the color: black Limousin (was a red breed), black Gelbvieh (was a red breed), black Simmental (was many colors, except black), and maybe the silliest of all to me, black Herefords (which to my knowledge are what we call black-baldy cattle, a crossbred produced by crossing Angus and Hereford produces the dominant black coat and the dominant white markings of the Herefordthis link goes to an article about the black Herefords).
