Is there a reason? Is the meat nasty as they grow older? I doubt it’ll get us sick, lol. I’m just curious.
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Most of the animals we eat are butchered before “puberty”. The older animals are tougher, and in some cases “musky” as adults.
They are raised to be as large as they can be as fast as they can be because the longer you have to pay to feed the animal the less money you’re making on it.
Imagine chickens for example:
They’re usually full size and butchered at 3 months. They’re unlikely to lay eggs before 4 months.
At two years old the egg production declines and those birds are too tough for our usual standards already. They go to animal food.
Chickens will live for 10 years or even more!
The difference between feeding a meat chicken for 3 months, and feeding a chicken for 10 years means your $10 chicken would cost $400 and it would taste terrible.
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