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trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoYou 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.
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
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.