Chickens eat worms. Feeding them crab or fish meal is fine.
Cows are herbivores. Feeding them meat is abhorrent.
Cows are herbivores. Feeding them meat is abhorrent.
As others are noting, it's the wacky industrial modernity doing its grossly myopic hyper-optimization thing that's the problem (and not just in animal husbandry or agriculture...).
One weirdo from the herd showed a preference for it one time. Whereas if you threw it among your dogs they'd likely fight over it. That's the difference.
"Meat" is a relative term though.
If I dry carcasses with some muscle and tissue still on them, grind it up into a powder, and add that powder to grain, is that meat?
"For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return," etc.
What you described - desiccated waste meat and grain - is a dog biscuit.
Now with 50% less horse!
How can we really know what cows know? What we know is they follow a herbivorous diet when possible. Their teeth and digestive system are optimized for consuming plants.
> Why would the fact that they don’t predate on other animals in the wild make it “abhorrent” to feed them animal products in captivity?
The reason you said.