This is not the case. Beef cattle today are very different than they were twenty-five years ago. They are even different compared to ten years ago. Modern Black Angus genetics today are exceptional. It is very easy to raise livestock, which means they require less food and nutrients to grow fat (Hasheider 34). Simmental cattle are the same way, offering everything that Black Angus do, but in a more muscular and moderate package. Long ago, Angus and Simmental cattle were bred to be very long and sleek and extremely tall at the shoulders. Today these cattle are very moderate in size. Over the years, ranchers have eliminated tall, long cattle and focused on keeping Angus cattle fairly short in height, while maintaining that long skeleton to produce huge quantities of meat. These Angus genetics are so popular that fifteen years ago they began massive embryo transfer programs and cloning operations to keep these amazing genetics alive. What embryo transfer allows breeders to do is simply revolutionary. It allows farmers to flush out their best cow, or a cow they like, with exceptional EPDs (expected progeny differences) and flush eggs from the uterus of this great cow. The eggs are then fertilized by the bull chosen by the breeder. Once fertilized these eggs are called embryos. The embryos are then implanted into recipient cows, who carry the tiny embryo with them for nine months, until the baby is born. These recipient mother cows have absolutely no genetic link to the young calf. They are only surrogate mothers and raise the calf until it is weaned. Embryo transfer allows farmers to produce multiple exceptional calves, from a single exceptional cow, in a single year (Hasceider