Beef
Beef noun - Cattle that are reared for their meat.
Cows
Cows noun - Domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Chick-fil-A frequently uses intelligent cows in its ads that urge customers to "Eat Mor Chikin" instead of beef.
Source: Everything's Better with Cows - Chick-Fil-A actually averts this by doing a series of ads with sentient cows shilling the restaurant... because they want people to eat more chicken and less beef.
Source: Furry Confusion / Real Life -
It's also probably a joke from the artist's end, given that she's from Hokkaido (an island in Japan where a lot of cows are raised for beef and milk sales).
Source: Picky Eater
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