Comment on Happy Birthday Emma!

• hansolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah, but that ain’t no staple. That’s something special you get every few years. You don’t have many oxens

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    • trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Meat never was a staple food for large parts of the population in most places until relatively recent.

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• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You would at the end of their life or if they got into accident or whatever.

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