Female cows OOP, OT WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: college and slaughter... (was Cooking Cats

[Amanda Blackwolf]

That would kind of depend tho........If I'm raising a calf for my
table....(Assuming I own mommy cow) and it happens to be female.....off to
the butcher we go........*when we actually get to do that raising our own
meat thing*

Amanda Blackwolf
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From: "Isabella di Giovanni" <isabella_di_giovanni at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: Female cows OOP, OT WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: college and
slaughter... (was Cooking Cats


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> OK. I admit that I am clueless in some things. I had *no* idea that female
cows weren't slaughtered for human food, after their *normal* usefulness was
over.
> Isabella
>  lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:Isabella di Giovanni
> >OK, I am clueless. Why aren't cows beef? What are they?
>
> Cows are girls. They make babies and give milk, and end up in pet
> food when they get too old.
> Beef comes from boys, err, well, former boys. Actually, beef comes
> from steers, which are castrated male bovines.
> I guess you thought we omnivores were eating a lot of bull :-) Well,
> we aren't. We eat castrati...
>
> When i was in Morocco i ate what the menu said was veal, or rather
> "veau" (it was in French, after all). I knew i was not getting
> American style veal, which i won't eat, so i ordered it. Moroccan
> "veals" are actually free range animals who are a lot older and have
> a more varied diet than American veal. The meat is rather dark and a
> bit, uh, firmer. They aren't raised chained to stalls. Basically it's
> from a not-quite full grown bull. And IIRC, in Muslim countries they
> *don't* castrate their male animals, as that would be counter to
> their religion. Probably why they eat more sheep than bovine meat...
>
> Actually, (as folks on this list are no doubt tired of hearing) i'm a
> former vegetarian, who rarely eats meat. When i do, i usually eat
> chicken or fish (or bacon :-). And, yes, i helped my Batak former
> sister-in-law kill chickens when i lived in Jakarta, Indonesia.
>
> And, yes, Sieggy, i did claw my way up the food chain to eat Tofu. It
> doesn't grow on trees, you know :-) It took a lot of human
> creativity, ingenuity, and technological know-how to figure out how
> to make it ;-p Heck, Tofu is one of my comfort foods - cold, right
> out of the box, with a little soy sauce. Hmmm, think i'll go get some
> now...
>
> Anahita
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