Patent ID: 7887399

Claim:
A method of controlling the quality of consumable animal primal cuts comprising the steps of: breeding a plurality of animals; providing an animal identifier for a plurality of animals bred at a breeding facility and identifying breeding data for the animals; selecting the animals into a plurality of lots of animals having similar characteristics, each lot having a lot identifier; raising the animals at a feeding facility; collecting production data on the animals in the feeding facility, the production data being selected from the group consisting of lot production data and individual animal production data; obtaining feeder facility data on the procedures used at the feeding facility; entering the breeding data, the animal identifier, lot identifier, lot production data, individual animal production data and feeding facility data into a database; processing the animals into primal cuts; assessing the quality of the primal cuts; entering the quality data into the database; identifying factors from the database that resulted in the quality of the primal cuts; and altering at least one of breeding the animals and raising the animals to improve the primal cut quality.