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They're like giant dogs.
As much as I am sick of vegans being high and mighty and demanding we not eat meat when not eating meat has been scientifically proven to reduce your health due to protein starvation...
I want to cuddle a cow. We shouldn't have to eat meat, but we do have to because we evolved to require it over 12k years ago and nature is cruel like that. At the very least ungulate livestock deserve the recognition of being alive and having feelings, even if consuming flesh is inevitable.
Also I will never eat veal or lamb. Seriously, don't tear a calf from it's mother if you're hungry.
12k years ago we learned to farm crops.
We have been eating meat way longer before that (I believe ~400k years?) but only because we were able to use fire to make it consumable for us (cooking also expanded the availability of plant proteins at the same amount). We aren't really capable of consuming raw meat very effectively until this day. Especially when looking at our digestive system, we're still very close to the fruit, nut and bug eating apes.
That's not evolution.