For milk cattle, depending upon gender, that age may be sooner rather than later. cf milanesa/schnitzel/chicken fried steak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_schnitzel

I was under the impression that, like chicken, cows became less edible as time passed?

I don't think his comment meant "edibility rises linearly with age." I think it meant "it reaches a peak" and implicitly "and then declines from there."

Exactly.

There's only one way to get to the bottom of this... we're going to have to have eat a lot of crows.

No arguments, this is science damn it!

He said "cows" not "crows."

Although you can open up a new branch of Science.

yes, I'd rather befriend a cow than a crow. Who's going to do the blog post?

Having heard stories of my homesteading great-grandparents being chased 'round and 'round their sod house by a steer while screaming at their significant other to "open the **ing door, for **'* sake!" I'm gonna stick with befriending crows.

(Cows give birth to steers, that's what not to like.)