In regards to eating meat

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It seemed like a rhetorical question. Physically, it's not possible to butcher a cow with your hands.

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Edit to add: Also, to hearken back to an earlier discussion, the term "meat-eaters" is a yellow-ray term. It's dividing us into groups, a group of meat-eaters and a group of non-meat-eaters.