It's beneath the level of detail in KoDP, but I believe that beef *is* eaten in Dragon Pass on a relatively regular basis. I suspect that, as in saga Iceland, you end up with more cattle than you can feed over the winter. So right before winter, you slaughter any animals you won't be able to support over the winter. You probably preserve them with salt if you have it, smoke if not.
(As I understand it, this practice is one reason we have Icelandic sagas: there was no shortage of dead calves from which to make vellum, so they had plenty of writing material to make enough copies of the sagas that they survived to this day.)
BTW, I don't agree with Jeff Richard that all Dragon Pass winters are bitterly cold, but I do think it snows enough that the cattle can't forage for themselves.
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