From pasture to the plate

The Cattlemen's Beef Board and National Cattlemen's Beef Association has a page called Pasture to Plate, with some subpages. I'm looking at the one called Stages in Beef Production. It's almost cute how carefully it's written, with text like

Growth promoting hormones help cattle build more muscle – producing a leaner beef product for consumers.

See, hormones are helpers. They're so sweet!

they are fed a scientifically formulated ration

Real scientists!

When cattle arrive at packing plants, they are moved inside in a quiet and orderly manner.

Remember those videos with the forklifts? Were they quiet and orderly?

Fabrication
When beef leaves the packing plant, it is in the form of large sections, either primals, like the chuck, round rib and loin, or subprimals which are smaller cuts of meat such as the bottom round, top round, eye round and round tip. Some plants sell subprimals to meat processing facilities where workers skillfully break them down into individual steaks and roasts that are sent to supermarkets and restaurants.

Why is this called fabrication? Also maybe, and this is just a thought, with the subprime mortgage mess going on right now maybe the subprimals should get a new name?

The site says you can download a copy of this ever so helpful document for your own files but I don't think the link works. Mine will take you to the html page where you can decide for yourself.