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Everywhere I've looked says the same - cows can live 15-20 years and possibly even longer. That's significantly more life than 18-20 months.
cows can live 15 to 20 years if they have protection from predators, and weather, and disease, and access to enough nutritious food, clean water, and veterinary care.
their natural life span, being a domesticated animal, is usually about 18-20 months.
That's insane. There's nothing natural about being slaughtered against your will. Growing less profitable is not a natural cause of death. I don't know anything more disturbingly capitalist than to perceive intelligent living beings as commodities.
this assumes non-human animals have a will to live. this would require an understanding that they, themselves, might die. we have no proof of understanding personal mortality in non-human animals (though, if you have a study that shows otherwise, i would be very interested to see it). therefore, we have no reason to believe nonhuman animals have a will to live.
no, and it's also not the cause of death for any of the animals we eat or otherwise exploit.
that's ableist
intelligent is a relative term. but i can certainly show you something more disturbingly capitalist: exploiting people for profit.