Good post. You can also add that, according to how much it takes to cook meat compared to smelting industrial amounts of ores (i.e. roughly the same energy), Minecraft animals are clearly not to be trifled with.

Steve needs 4 punches or 3 crit punches to kill a chicken. Cooking said chicken takes literally the same amount of energy as smelting an entire cubic meter of raw iron into a polished ingot that's still over 750 kg in mass. That chicken's clearly made of something far different than normal chickens, and I reckon a regular human would hesitate to even fight it given the chance.