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The USDA has a letter-grading system for maturity of the cow. It runs from A to E-

-A is an animal less than 30 months old, D is an animal that's between 6 and 8 years. E is any animal over 8 years. Basically, grade D and E cattle are used-up milk cattle. It's thoroughly possible they'd use this beef in their products; there's absolutely nothing wrong with it and all that time on the hoof would give it lots of good flavor. The odds of them using it are very low, though, because there's just not that much of it. Most beef in America is slaughtered before the animal reaches 30 months, so you can figure most of Taco Bell's meat is going to be A grade.

The grade I suspect Taco Bell uses is called "standard-minus."

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