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Re:The Case Against Eating Fish by seszett on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:14AM (#14016521)
> A lot of restaurants also sell ox or bison instead of beef.

That's not really related to the article I guess, but I'm curious:

What's the difference between "ox" and "beef"?

I'm intrigued because in French, ox and beef are supposed to be the same thing (both bœuf), and I would probably have written "A lot of restaurants also sell cow or bison instead of beef" since bœuf is supposed to be castrated bull, while most often people actually get sold cow meat.

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Re:The Case Against Eating Fish by klodolph on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:25AM (#14016553)
There's a saying that loanwords only change in two ways--meaning and pronunciation. In English, "beef" is meat from cattle.
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Re:The Case Against Eating Fish by undersuit on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @04:28PM (#14036864)
There is no difference. Oxen are just cows that have been trained to pull a device like a hoe or a wagon.
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