00:00This is the largest steak processing plant in the world.
00:02Every year, tens of thousands of steaks leave here,
00:05eventually landing on American dinner tables.
00:08To make a good steak, fresh ingredients are everything.
00:10Every morning, workers haul in massive slabs of beef.
00:14With sharp knives flashing in their hands,
00:16they carefully strip away bones and tendons,
00:19then cut the marbled meat into neat, uniform blocks.
00:22Next comes the sorting process, and this part really matters.
00:25The tender cuts with perfect marbling get labeled as prime steak.
00:29They're carefully packaged, sent out in refrigerated trucks,
00:32and delivered straight to high-end restaurants,
00:34where they become fine dining on a plate.
00:37But the tougher cuts, the ones with too much tendon or not-so-pretty texture,
00:41don't go to waste.
00:42Those get packed up together and shipped off to street stalls and night markets,
00:45where they're grilled, seasoned, and transformed into another kind of everyday favorite.
00:50And that's the story.
00:51One cow, two very different destinies.
00:54Some people pay a hundred bucks to savor a marble-cut steak in a fancy restaurant.
00:58Others spend just a few dollars to enjoy a beef skewer sizzling on the street.
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