why can’t we wait for animals to naturally die or are close to death before slaughter?

Question

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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Answer 1

There is some change in quality of the meat as it gets older. Young meat is more tender then older meat. But the biggest reason is that animals require feeding even though they do not grow bigger. So they would need greater pastures and fodder costing quite a lot of money. It is much cheaper to slaughter most of the animals when they have grown up, or even a bit before they are fully grown, and then use the food to raise new animals.