<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/56c64dbd6e97c619008b8271-907-680/1024px-kamp-_bambino_vd_ijzer_copy.jpg" alt="Belgian blue" data-mce-source="agriflanders/Wikimedia Commons" data-link="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamp-_Bambino_vd_ijzer_copy.jpg" /><p class="source"><span><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamp-_Bambino_vd_ijzer_copy.jpg">agriflanders/Wikimedia Commons</a></span></p><p class="caption">Belgian Blue cattle have been specially bred to produce twice as much muscle as normal cows.</p></div><p></p></div></div>When you take a bite of steak or munch on a turkey drumstick, you probably don't think about the animal it came from.</p><p>We've been eating animals for millennia, but generations of breeding have given rise to farm animals that look pretty different from their wild ancestors.</p><p>From turkeys and chickens to cows and sheep, here's how some of the most common animals we eat looked in the past versus today:</p>

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Here's what the animals we eat looked like before we started breeding them

agriflanders/Wikimedia CommonsBelgian Blue cattle have been specially bred to produce twice as much muscle as normal cows.When you take a bite of steak or munch on a turkey drumstick, you probably don't think about the animal it came from.We've been eating animals for millennia, but generations of breeding have given rise to farm animals that look pretty different from their wild ancestors.From turkeys and chickens to cows and sheep, here's how some of the most common animals we eat looked in the past versus today:

agriflandersWikimedia CommonsBelgian Blue cattle have been specially bred to produce twice as much muscle as normal cows. When you take a bite of steak or munch on a turkey drumstick, you probably dont think about the animal it came from.

Here's what the animals we eat looked like before we started breeding them

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