As someone whose job it is to educate students, farmers, and the public about animal agriculture proper terminology is important. I just wanted to make a point that 'cows' is probably not the correct word for the first line of this article.
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This is a cute article, but as an animal scientist I'm disappointed in some of the terminology used.
I'm fairly certain he was raising cattle to go to slaughter (which were probably mostly steers) not just 'cows'. Normally females are kept to be replacement breeding females (and…Â
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