When the Lampari Kingdom Parliament announced the repeal of this law, it caused a sensation and sparked heated debate both within the Lampari Kingdom and in neighboring countries.
The law itself was simple: no one was permitted to slaughter draft cattle for any reason, and offenders faced severe punishment.
Repealing this law meant that draft cattle would no longer enjoy legal protection. Anyone with the means who wanted to eat beef could slaughter them for food.
For the people of the Sains Continent, where productivity had previously been low and plowing in particular had depended almost entirely on draft cattle, these animals had been practically sacred.
Slaughtering draft cattle, let alone eating them, had been unthinkable.
Some nobles might have secretly slaughtered them to satisfy their cravings, but no one dared do so openly, because they would inevitably face universal condemnation.
Naturally, the Lampari Kingdom's sudden repeal of the law protecting draft cattle had come as a surprise to everyone.
Many people worried that once the law was repealed, large numbers of draft cattle within the Lampari Kingdom would be slaughtered, with no way to escape their fate.
Events proved their concerns justified.
Ever since news of the repeal broke, newspapers throughout the Lampari Kingdom had continually reported on draft cattle being slaughtered in various places. For a time, people were left with the illusion that every draft animal in the kingdom would disappear.
Many people expressed grave concern.
Without draft cattle, how would they plow their fields in the future?
But two months later, when the autumn harvest arrived, these people immediately realized that their worries had been entirely unnecessary.
Throughout the autumn harvest and the planting that followed, places that used draft cattle were exceedingly rare, though not entirely nonexistent.
The reason was simple. All the work previously