• Other worldviews offer alternative ways of thinking and being in relation to food animals. • Embracing complexities in our relationship with cattle could be a starting point for resolving common, and sometimes contentious paradoxes in our industry. • Heart-centered connections we have with food animals are somehow taboo and left out of our research, professional conversations, and communication with broader society. • Shifting our language around cattle to consider them “partners” could be transformative. • Our work may benefit from intentionality, humility, and acknowledgement of our symbiosis with cattle and the natural world. © 2022 The Author(s) The Rangelands archives are made available by the Society for Range Management and the University of Arizona Libraries. Contact lbry-journals@email.arizona.edu for further information.
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