You would. Once the ox gets too old to do useful work. (or injured) That’s what happened to old work horses, too. Of course meat from old animals tends to be of lower quality, so this tended to be sold off relatively cheap and often provided the only affordable meat for poor people.
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Gladaed@feddit.org 4 weeks agoHorses are animals for doing work, not eating. You wouldn’t slaughter a trained ox either.
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Yeah, but that ain’t no staple. That’s something special you get every few years. You don’t have many oxens
trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Meat never was a staple food for large parts of the population in most places until relatively recent.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You would at the end of their life or if they got into accident or whatever.
hansolo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Zebra is the solution.
Zebra are assholes. They can’t be trained or domesticated. Their meat is delicious, and I delight in eating it. I get why lions love them.
But I would sooner spend $20K at the vet on a horse than eat one.