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Only very rarely. A cow was a prized possession, able to provide both milk and calves. Alive, it would provide more food than dead.
Your average farmer would only slaughter a cow as a last option.
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∙ 12y agoI believe farmers always ate meat, unless they were vegetarians. Maybe in the past there was a time were they did not because of a food shortage or something around the lines of it.
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