Why are cows the tastiest animal?
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“tasty” is entirely a matter of preference. As others have said, other cultures prefer lamb, or chicken, or fish. Even within the US many people prefer seafood or pork or chicken to beef.
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cows and goats can carry some diseases and it can be spread through the milk. T.B. can be spread that way and dairy animals are regularly tested for T.B. If an animal gets mastitis the milk can become harmful. In the late 50's a young girl who lived next to my grandmother and drank fresh cow milk got milk sickness and nearly died. It left her with some brain damage and shaky hands. I don't know if it was caused by something the cow ate or an actual disease the cow had. I think the milk would need to be tested to find out for sure. Also her 4 brothers and her parents drank the milk, as did several other people in the neighberhood and as far as I know she is the only one who got sick.
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Because people are realizing that animals are made out of MEAT. And meat tastes good. The more innocent the animal, the better they taste, too.
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...animals are ALWAYS better than humans. their choices aren't made based on artificial morals & judgements of others. They are pure instinct & desire...\n\n...unless any1 knows different?
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Because when the cow is yours exclusively 24 hours a day, there are a lot more opportunities to get a drink.  And when you know the milk is only for you, its a lot sweeter.
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Cows are descended from a European species called the Aurock.  The last Aurocks were killed by board German soldiers during WWI.  They just felt like shooting something.
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Some like Chicken....some don't......\n\n"ALL" creatures and other forms of life....."kill",destroy, or absorb the nutrients of others....... in one form or fashion....to survive.....the grass growing tall around a dead animal....the cow eating the grass, and man eating the cow.... just a big circle..........never ends....so far!
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its the methane producing bacteria in their digestive tract.\nthey break down the oganic nutrients from the cows food, and produce methane as a waste product
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I'm a Hindu.  To me, all life is sacred.  All sentient beings deserve our respect.  But the cow in particular is of special importance in Indian culture for various historical and cultural reasons.  \n\nThe cow is seen as a symbol of the Mother.  The cow gives, and asks for nothing in return.  It is gentle and itself a vegetarian.\nIndians have used the products of the cow for their livelihood.  They drink its milk, and they use ghee (clarified butter) in much cooking, and paneer (cheese) is an important nutritional element in a predominantly vegetarian diet that most Indians keep.\nBesides these foods, the dung is a traditional source for fuel.  The cow's urine is an antiseptic.\n\nThe cow was an ancient measure of wealth.  When there were no coins, people traded in cows and such.\n\nThe cow is a national emblem for India, and there is much pride associated with it.\n\nThe cow is not really worshipped, in the same sense that one worships God.  But it is definitely respected and appreciated, and protected.
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I too am a zoology major (science grad) and cows have a stomach with 4 chambers; rumen, reticulum, omasum and the abomasum. The cow ingests food and masticates it to break the cell wall. After entering the first two chambers, the cow regurgitates the cud to further break down the food (fibres); this assists the body in accessing nutrients within the cell which are difficult to obtain due to the nature of plant cells. These chambers contain bacteria (symbiotic) that break down cellulose. The liquid pulp then passes into omasum, which removes water. Finally the food enters the true stomach, abomasum which acts like any typical stomach. Cows should actually be known as bacteriophages, simply because its actually the bacteria that gain all the energy and nutrients required...
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Cow was very important in ancient hindu civilisation. As per true Hindu spirit, hindus gave special respect to cow as it gave them milk, her offsprings used in farming.  So besides respecting rivers to give them water, and trees to give them fruits, hindus gave a special status to cow and forbade its killing for eating purpose.\n\nMany westerners spread the rumour that hindus worship cow as God, is not correct.  Hindus respect cows as angles...for obvious reasons and protected her to protect the old hindu civilisation
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Cows were first domesitcated about 5,000 years ago.  I think if they were wild and allowed to run free, maybe they would behave alot like Bison or Wildebeasts.  They would probably stay in herds that graze in open grasslands, with sub-groups of a Bull and females.
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Cows, like all mammals,produce milk to feed their young.  We take advantage of this when we milk a cow.   The milk supply produced depends on the demand for it.   If a calf- or the farmer, take less milk, then less is produced to replace it.  After a while, the cow's body quits producing milk all together, and she "dries up" in farmer language.  Now if you have a cow in milk production, you milk her twice a day, every day, 7 days a week.  At each milking, you try to remove all the milk from the udder.  If you do not milk her, she will get extremely uncomfortable, full and irritable.  Some will leak out, and eventually her body would absorb the excess.  In the meantime, she would be at risk to develop infections and abcesses of the udder, and could even die from them.  If she does develop an abcess, milk production in that quadrant (cows have four separate sections in the udder, and four teats, fyi) will stop.   It may also not produce milk in that quadrant ever again, and will always be at risk for developing another abcess if she does.  A good farmer would never let this happen.  He would gradually reduce the amount of milk taken from a cow over a period of weeks until there was very little produced.  A cow naturally dries up milk supply before another calf is born, at which point she "freshens" and begins supplying milk again.
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger
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Coz they have a lot of cows?
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>>>>>(IT IS NOT HOMEWORK! i am competing with a friend for the >>>>> best example)\n\nAnd cheating by asking strangers on the internet. I like the way you think.\n\nThe most extreme example of bacterial endosymbiosis amongst mammals is without a doubt the presence of mitochondria. You might not relaise it but mitochondria are stable line bacterial endosymbionts, complete with there own genetic structure. It's hard to top that.\n\nAfter that probably comes the entire rumen structure of ruminants. Its incredibly cmmplicated, but basically the stomach of cows and sheep is one massive bacterial fermentor. The cow eats grass but is totally unable to digest it. Instead it grinds the grass up fine and swallow sit to wet it. It leave sit in the stomach to fermenta while then brings it up to shew again after the bacteria have softened it. The food then goes back down for even more fermentation in the other three chambers of the stomach. To add to the elegance of this system cows don't just excrete their urea through their kidneys like other mammals. Urea is  a waste in mammals and is poisonous, but it is also a good fertiliser. Ruminants excrete their urea through their salivary glands. It then passes into the stomach and what was a poison to the cow becomes fertiliser for the bacetria, who convert the waste urea into protein that the cow can use. As a reuslt ruminants are the only mammals in the world tht can survive with no protein input intheir deit at all. Which explains why they have been so extraordinarily successful at surviving in harsh and low nutrient environments.\n\nLast comes the biosynthesis of vitamins. Mammals can't   make their own vitamins, they normally need to take it in on the food. However numerous mammals species from dogs to horses are able to harvest those vitamins from bacteria that grow in their guts. So although a dog lives on a diet that is horrendously deficient in 3 or four vitamins it never gets ill or needs to take vitamin tablets. Which is pretty clever.
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Cows give bacteria an appropriate microenvironment to develop and grow, well protected from the harsh conditions of the outside environment. The bacteria also get enough food to live. \nIn return, bacteria process the cellulose present in plants (which mammals can´t digest) into simpler sugars that can be absorbed and utilized by the cow as an energetic source.