Patent Document ID: 20060053031
Application ID: 11219422
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of monitoring the production history 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 information 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; and assessing the quality of the primal cuts and entering the quality data into the database.