• gullible
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    -101 year ago

    Pigs don’t have expressive faces, built-in emotional understanding of humans, and, most importantly, infinite affection. Horses supplanted cows as farm… workhorses, which severely altered our perception of them in the west. It’s a marketing issue.

    • @Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      51 year ago

      Emphasis on the west. In eastern culture, cows are still used (e.g cows in india are considered sacred). Hell, an example of a cow that was originally not bred for consumption is the wagyu, a highly sought after piece of meat. But of course, as westerners, apparently we disregard that fact…

      • gullible
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        21 year ago

        In 1868, Englishman Edward Charles Kirby established the first slaughterhouse in Kobe, and in 1869, a sukiyaki restaurant called “Gekka-tei” opened in Kobe.

        TIL

    • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Pigs don’t have expressive faces,

      Yes, they do.

      built-in emotional understanding of humans

      No, they don’t.