The protein content of yak meat is higher than other meats, but the fat content is lower than other meats, and it is rich in mineral elements, and the amino acid structure ratio is closer to human body. At the same time, this variety lives in the pollution-free alpine zone all the year round, and its meat quality is natural and healthy, which is the most ideal product for people to choose and consume meat. However, there are many reasons why yak meat did not go to the whole country. First, it is a market-oriented factor. Yak meat has a high cost. Foreign cattle are kept in captivity or in sheds, fixed in cowsheds, with a falling object around their necks, and can only eat feed and drink water.
Foreign beef cattle breeding cycle is short and slaughter is fast. Calves mainly eat grass at this stage of growing up to young cows. Then began to add feed, additives, grain (mainly corn and other hay broken into cakes) and so on. The fastest fattening cycle can reach half a year, and the fastest average slaughter 1 year or more. Beef is lean and fat, but after this wave of foreign cattle operation, beef has more fat.
In contrast, yak slaughter cycle is 4 years, almost living on the plateau of 3000 meters. It spends too little time eating feed and additives, and basically eats grass and drinks mountain spring water. Yak is almost in semi-wild grazing state. Although there are also small farmers with large-scale farming in modern times, there are few technical means to slaughter them as quickly as abroad. A batch of foreign beef is shipped to China, which is dozens of tons. If you use several large containers at a time by sea, the average price per catty can be very low. Our yak transportation is basically land transportation. One is to pull raw cattle into the market and sell them separately, and the other is to freeze them on the plateau at-18 degrees and sell them everywhere. The cost is also based on pork, which is higher than the pork market price.
Then there are eating habits. The average family eats beef once a year, but most families don't eat beef once a month. And even if you can get used to it once a month, you are unlikely to eat yak meat again. Finally, from the consumption level, the price of ordinary yak meat in the daily ordinary vegetable market is 35 to 45 Jin. The price of ordinary yak meat can reach two Jin of pork, which is still a little expensive for ordinary people.