I have seen people getting offended that some butcher shop is selling female animals. Why? Why is it that we only slaughter male animals not females?
Humans are animals as well, but we see men and women as equals, why dont we see these other animals equals?
Because, as in cattle for example, slaughtering the females (cows) would end your cattle herd quickly. So raising the castrated males (steers) to send to market is the only logical way to maintain and grow a herd while raising beef to feed people.
@Mason
Plus, too many males can cause complications and could result in injuries/death to the females, especially with chickens, ducks, and turkeys.
Men and women aren’t equal in how we value their lives; women are more than willing to say that there should be a draft and that men should be willing to die to keep them safe. Males are replaceable and that goes for animals and humans.
Zeek said:
@Mason
I’m in cattle country. Females are killed and used for meat as well as males. You don’t need to keep that many. And of course, female calves that were twins to a male are always used for meat.
Well, not on my friend’s 16,000 plus acre cattle ranch. The amount of cows going into the food chain is very, very low. And BTW there’s “cattle country” in a vast majority of states.
@Mason
Dairy and beef industries are different. All female calves who are twins to males are killed. They can’t breed. All those adult females also get killed eventually once they are too old to have calves. And less desirable ones will be killed too. They don’t keep every heifer to replace older cows so some go for meat. For sure less cows go than steers.
@Zeek
Martin calves that are very uncommon.
I completely understand your question. Though I am a meat eater, it is sad to think about the use of animals for our diet. Female farm animals such as cows, hens, ducks, goats etc all have a product that continuously generates such as milk or eggs. Male farm animals are great for breeding but not as many are needed for that, the same male can impregnate many females, so their next best function is meat.
@Dallas
For chickens we eat mostly females. Males taste gamey and don’t grow as well. So most people who raise chickens for meat only raise hens. These are broilers. Males are raised but often used in pet food. You don’t need to keep many hens to produce replacement hens. There are different types of chickens, some lay more eggs, some are raised for meat. For the egg layers the male chicks are killed at the age of one day. The females are kept to lay eggs for a year or two then are also killed for food. We definitely eat more hens than roosters.
@Zeek
Wow I didn’t know this! I guess I should have, I remember seeing this horrible video of male chicks being killed as they weren’t ‘useful’ for farming. Thank you for correcting my comment 
Because you only need one prize male to impregnate a ton of females.
Since when? Isn’t a lot of meat from female animals too? I’ve heard no complaints about it coming from females in particular. I’ve seen people take more offense to meat from male animals since they’re usually killed before adulthood. Edit: it is more cost-effective. Females can produce milk and eggs. One male can impregnate multiple females at a time. Males will also fight if kept together.
Think of it this way, a human pregnancy is 9 months, but 1 man can get a minimum of one woman pregnant a day. To apply this back to animals day you have 50 cows and 3 bulls, within a few days all 50 cows can be pregnant, after that they will give birth and produce milk, any of the female calves can also do this, whereas the males cannot, so since you only need 2 or 3 bulls and you want to keep your gene pool fresh you do not want 25 bulls running around, so you sell them to a meat farmer who has use for them.
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
that comment reminds me of Sid in Ice Age. ‘I THOUGHT YOU WERE A FEMAIL’
Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
… As long as we agree that the males have the right to have babies.
Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
… As long as we agree that the males have the right to have babies.
A wild Monty Python reference 
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Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
Never heard of a male cow, period.
Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
Until this very moment I’ve never thought of the gender of a dairy cow lol.
Eli said:
Males=meat. Female=milk. You’ve never heard of a male dairy cow.
Until this very moment I’ve never thought of the gender of a dairy cow lol.
I think a lot of folks don’t realize that “cow” isn’t the term for the species (“cattle” is the correct term). A cow is a female that has had a baby, while a heifer is a female that has not had a baby. Also, bulls are intact males and steers are altered males. Pretty much the only way to refer to cattle in the singular if you don’t know the sex/reproductive status is to say “one head of cattle” (at least that’s the only term I’ve ever heard).