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I know male calves in a dairy herd are slaughtered young. Calves in a beef herd live longer to get more meat from them. It's around two years before they go.

How do they earn a living in the meantime?

Indeed.

Not in a beef herd.

My comments on the plants was a joke as was the other poster, who saw it for what is was, and joked about watching flowers die in a vase. Sense of humour failure. I eat meat, I enjoy meat and don't feel any shame in eating meat, dairy or fish.

No leather for shoes and plastics are bad for the environment so we must learn to walk barefooted.

That's just a romantic idea. The animals would be destroyed as farmers couldn't afford to keep them as pets. There wouldn't be herds of wild cattle, except for rarer breeds. There might be herds of sheep seeing as it doesn't hurt them to shear their wool.

That's not true. One cow or one nanny goat per family provides for the calf/kid and a family. A lactating animal will produce more milk when more is drawn. You don't think a six month old child takes the same amount of milk as a newborn do you? I have breastfed, so I know.

The original comment was that our 'ancestors' ie apes were vegetarian. Gorillas are apes and not vegetarian.

I'll quote my own link again where gorillas eat monkeys as their dna is found in their faeces.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100305-first-proof-gorillas-eat-monkeys-mammals-feces-dna/

Eggs are natural. A cow will give milk, as will a goat. Obviously with intense production the bull calves are sent for animal food or veal, but people owning one cow or nanny goat are not causing the animal any suffering by drinking their milk or making cheese and butter. Vegans will tell you...

Plants are living organisms, so you kill them by eating them.