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>> “Already by referring to what we eat as “beef” instead of “cow,” we have created a distance between our food and an animal with abilities to think and feel.” <<
Who eats cow?
No sensible rancher would ever slaughter a cow!
They slaughter Steers only.
These fools must have gray vegetable matter in their mostly empty skulls.
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Is that anything like having a cow which this idiot appears to be doing.
Yeah.
Those who actually raise the animals make the distinction. Historically, ‘cows’ (female beef) were for birthing and milking. ‘Beef’ was the steers who had little other use except as eventual breakfast, lunch and dinner meat.
I would suspect that the underlying philosophy from the U of Oslo is that meat is bad, veggies are good.
The reason for this lies deep in England, after the Norman invasion.
Good old Anglo-Saxon words like cow, pig, sheep are stilled used for the animal.
However, the meat was demanded by the new royals and aristocratic Frenchmen, and the Saxon servants fed it to them by the French name; for cow, Le Boeuf; for pig, Jambon; for sheep, Mutton.
It is not about distastefulness at the thought of wishing a poor animal no ill will.
If the peasants could, they’d have ate animals all day long!