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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by gatherhunterer on Friday March 15, 2019 @06:49PM (#19405047)
What is your source for this information? I have worked with meat for years and have never heard anyone react with humor to steers or bulls being referred to as cows. Go into a butcher shop and ask where their cows are raised and they will answer you without hesitation. Ask them without using the word and they will readily refer to beef as having come from a cow.

EDIT: Even googling "beef cows" provides a wealth of contradictions to your statement.

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Re:CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows by bunderbunder on Friday March 15, 2019 @07:41PM (#19405377)
My source for this information is how the language is spoken among members of my social circle. Which admittedly doesn't include any butchers, just dairy farmers. Maybe our social circles are different. That's regional variation for you.
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