Nope, not even close! I eat beef tacos every Tuesday, love a good medium rare filet and think chili needs beans and meat! I just really like cows, they bring me tranquility and joy. My great aunt and uncle ran cattle on their Harrah Oklahoma property until they were in their late 80s. They laughed at me for over 40 years because I would come see them so I could sit in the pasture and make friends with their cows, which they treated well but like a commodity for their business. I lived in an area of Georgia called "horse country" and heard over and over how expensive horses were. I never knew any other cattlemen but my great uncle Zip (who is in his 90s but has dementia so isn't able to discuss the financial hardships of cattle ownership.) Once we moved here to Madison and learned to take care of our land without animals, I started looking for what we could get. Goats escape, sheep need to be moved a lot, donkeys are loud, pigs are messy, ostrich are mean and could jump our fences, my husband drew the line at any girlie looking animals. A barrel racer told us "Horses take your money and cows make you money". Not the way I'm doing it! A woman on Facebook was in a bind and needed a home for her pet cow that was being evicted from her new home at a cattle ranch because the cow was barren. I offered to take her cow but knew she needed a friend. That lady gave me the name of someone who sells cows and that nice guy picked up the free one, brought me both cows and went on his way. I've been winging it since August! That free cow wasn't barren, two makes three and here we are. Pneumonia, sepsis, vertical hoof cracks, the dreaded cow lice; I'm learning as I go! This message board has so much knowledge and everyone readily shares it with me. Ranchers take good care of their animals and cows are food for the entire world (except India, where filth is everywhere and cows have to eat garbage on the side of the road.) My cows belong to me because I was looking for bovine friends, I have no judgement for the people who feed us all.