148 Making Beef for Dinner - Increases in Early 19th Century Cattle

What happens when you grow more cows to make more milk to make more cheese and butter?
You end up with more oxen that can't make milk - but are useful as a source of beef.

And this works out well when you are living in a society that craves more meat, 
and are in a place with apparently wide open spaces that are just fine for feeding said cattle.

A bonus when you have lots of growing industries that are willing to buy beef from you to feed their growing ambitions - whaling, the railroad, new factories, a military pushing out the borders...

And then... you also have new technologies to cook the beef, and have come up with new flavors for seasoning the beef.

The result - American is ready to become a beefy country.


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