This is not the case. Today's beef cattle are so different from what they were twenty-five years ago. They are even different from ten years ago. Modern Black Angus genetics are exceptional today. They are very easy cattle to raise, meaning they require less food and nutrients to gain weight (Hasheider 34). Simmental cattle are the same way, they offer 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, sleek, and extremely tall at the withers. Today, these cattle are very moderate in size. Over the years, breeders have eliminated tall, leggy cattle and worked to make Angus cattle small enough, while still retaining that long skeleton to produce enormous quantities of meat. These Angus genetics are so popular that fifteen years ago they started massive embryo transfer programs and cloning operations to maintain these amazing genetics. What embryo transfer allows breeders to do is nothing short of revolutionary. It allows breeders to hunt their best cow, or a cow of their liking, with exceptional EPDs (expected differences in progeny) and hunt eggs from the uterus of this great cow. The eggs are then fertilized on the bull chosen by the breeder. Once fertilized, these eggs are called embryos. The embryos are then implanted into recipient cows, and the cows carry the small embryo 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 they raise the calves until weaning. Embryo transfer allows breeders to produce multiple exceptional calves, from a single exceptional cow, in a single year (Hasheider