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In 1994 roughly 4.57 billion pounds of non-fed US produced
beef was consumed by consumers, in the form of ground beef.
Ground beef accounts for 43 percent of the total beef
consumed in the US. Much of the beef that is consumed by
Americans comes from dairy and beef cows as well as bulls.
The annual ratio of bulls to cows harvested is 1 to 10. The
slaughter of cull cows generates approximately 75 percent of
all domestic non-fed beef. Of all the cull cows that are
harvested one-half are cull dairy cows. Thus, approximately
one-third of domestic non-fed beef production is derived
from dairy cows.
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