One of the primary reasons God in the Old Testament demanded sacrifices of animals is to prove a point. Most pagan religions, particularly the Egyptian one, either revered animals or were part animal in their visualization of their demon gods.
Christians will slaughter every cow in India one day and have beef tacos when they convert from demon worship.
Prove what point? Pretty much all old religions did animal sacrifices.
I try to be charitable with you, but you know, it's tough. God is telling the Israelites to sacrifice the symbols of gods of other religions. Then they did.
Regardless of whether God rewarded them with actual grace or not for the acts, the point being that killing them did not get them cursed or some such. That proved a point, eh?
This is completely made up with no evidence in either scripture or tradition.
Fucking heretic.
You continue to surprise, arguing as if you were a Christian, when you're not. As for that...
The golden calf in Exodus, was what, exactly? Further, in Genesis, Man was given dominion over the animals, not the other way around, to worship them.
Anyway, one of the greatest theologians of all time covers this topic a fair bit. See here: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/aquinas/summa.FS_Q102_A6.html
And again. Neither scripture nor tradition supports your claim.
Are you part of one of these weird denomination where every random person can interpret the bible to their liking?