Is it true that some trips in India worship the cow and that's why they don't eat beef?
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Yes, Hindus worship cow and they don't eat beef.
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INDIA  people  think  the  cow  is  beautiful. AMERICANS  THINKS  CATS +  dogs  are  cute+  beautiful along  with  birds.
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Some Indians drink cow's urine. It's some religious practice they have and it's very sacred!
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as far as I know humans dont pass methane gas,cows do, call him/her the great flatulant.
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You see, it's like this.  Cattle eat grass.  Grass is a vegetable.  We eat cattle.  We are eating a vegetarian.  Therefore, we are ALL vegetarians because we are what we eat!
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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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I'm not sure if this is an accurate assumption. The Indians I know drink a lot of tea, and may drink coffee as a substitute, but I know several who don't care for coffee due to the bitterness.
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No, a cow cannot walk down stairs, only upstairs. \n\nBlue Moo website gives us this information (pay particular attention to #43):\n\n45 Fun Facts About Cows  \n1. It takes around 3,000 cows to supply the 22,000 footballs, the NFL uses every season. \n2. The average cow's temperature is 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit. \n3. A cow can't vomit. \n4. Her intestines can get up to 170 feet. \n5.Her liver weighs 10 to 12 pounds, and the kidney's average 20 pounds each. \n6. From a cow's gelatin, we get photographic film. \n7.On the top front of their mouths, cows have a tough pad of skin instead of teeth. \n8.Cows have a total of 32 teeth, 8 incisors on the bottom front and 6 strong molars on the top and bottom back. \n9.There are 10,354,979 cows that give milk in the US. Of these, one fifth are in Wisconsin \n10.The average California cow produces 19,825 pounds of milk each year, more milk per cow than any other state in the nation. That's enough for 128 people to have a glass of milk every day of an entire year! \n11.There are more than 800,000 cows producing milk in California. \n12.The large, black and white Holstein is the most common. Other breeds include Guernsey's, Jerseys, Brown Swiss, Ayrshires, and Milking Shorthorns. \n13.When a Holstein cow is milking, she weighs between 1,100 and 1,500 pounds. \n14. A Jersey cow weighs between 700 and 1,000 pounds. \n15. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots. \n16. The cow must be a mother before she will produce milk. \n17. A newborn Holstein calf weighs about 100 pounds and can walk within one hour after birth! \n18. A one year old female calf is called a heifer. She weighs between 450 and 500 pounds. \n19. A cow has one stomach with four sections. \n20. Cows regurgitate their food and rechew the cud to help digestion. A cow spends up to 8 hours a day eating. \n21. Milk is rich in protein which helps build your muscles, and calcium which strengthens your bones. \n22. If you're between 1 and 12 years old, you should have 3 servings of milk dairy products every day. \n23. Teenagers need even more and should have 4 or more servings of dairy foods each day. \n24. Adults should have 2 or more servings of dairy per day. \n25. Cows live to on average 6 to 7 years. \n26. Cows give 60 lb. of milk a day. \n27. Cows eat 100 lb. of feed a day, 20 lb. of grain, and drink a bath tub full of water a day. \n28. Cows can weigh 1,350 lb., and 85 lb. at birth. \n29. A cow spends 13 hours a day lying down and up to 8 hours a day eating. \n30. A cow is full grown at three years old, and produces milk at two years old. \n31. A cow gives in her lifetime enough milk to fill 200,000 glasses, and gives 18,000 lb. of milk every year. \n32. There are 207 bones in a cow's body. \n33. The oldest cow ever recorded was a Dremon cow named "Big Bertha" that died 3 months short of her 49th birthday on New Years Eve, 1993. \n34. Big Bertha also holds the record for lifetime breeding as she produced 39 calves. \n35. The heaviest live birth of a calf is 225 lbs for a British Friesian cow in 1961. \n36. The highest lifetime production of milk for a single cow is 465,224 lbs by the cow named No. 289. \n37. The greatest amount of milk produce in one year was 59,298 lbs by a Holstein cow named Robthom Suzet Paddy. \n38. The greatest amount of milk produced during a single day was 241 lbs by a cow named Urbe Blanca. \n39. Dairy cows can produce 125 lbs of saliva a day. \n40. Dairy cows can produce up to 200 lbs of farts and flatus (burps) a day! \n41. The Sanskrit word for "war" means "desire for more cows." \n42. Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink." \n43. It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because a cows' knees can't bend properly to walk back down. \n44. There are (as of 1988) 98,990,000 cows in the USA. \n45. Texas has the most with over 13 million cows.
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They routinely grind up meat parts and process it into cattle feed.  That's one reason that they had a problem in Britain with the mad cow's disease - they still let them use, of all things, road kill in the cattle's food.  We never allowed that here.\n\nCow's normally won't eat a piece of meat, at least when it looks like meat and tastes like meat.  And they chew things up very thoroughly, so it is almost impossible that they would "accidentally" eat the stuff.  It is only when it is ground up and dried and slipped in with oats and stuff that they eat it.\n\nSo since they SEEM fine with this, general health wise, I imagine that other plant eaters would seem to be, too.  I believe they do this with poultry feed also.  How they really are or feel.......
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cause they're not happy cows?
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Actually the cattle farmers made it up. Beef sales were down after poultry farmers invented mad cow disease so this was just retaliation. Meat should always be fully cooked regardless.
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We euroamericans probably misunderstand this "sacreness of cows" I thought before that everybody is running around them worshipping, but it is very down-to earth worship, as one sage tells. Hazrat Inayat Khan, the leader of one of Sufi orders explains, that cows in India are worshipped because they give milk, or their urine is healthy, or they are peaceful animals - for very practical reasons. So it must be not ritual, but everyday life...\n\nYeah to us such naturalism seems strange or disgusting, but I know from childhood that to piss immediately on a burned hand is very effective method.
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One of the problems with this comparison is that cows and chickens can eat things that humans cannot.  So the cows on a cattle ranch can be raised on native grasses on open range, which could not be utilized by humans in that form.  \n\nIn addition to the cattle, other organisms such as prairie dogs, badgers, burrowing owls, black-footed ferrets, prairie chicken, swift fox and all variety of insects that evolved over millions of years to live alongside the bison herds that once covered the North American prairie can survive on the open rangeland.  The cattle can take the ecological niche that was once inhabited by the bison.\n\nFor cereal crops, this open rangeland is plowed under and converted to monoculture fields that are inimical to the native plants and animals.  Pesticides and irrigation are required to grow these crops, pulling water from irreplaceable groundwater sources, rather than renewable rivers and lakes that can be used in livestock production.\n\nThe monoculture crop fields are highly susceptible to insect pests, as there are no predatory insects that can survive in the crop fields, and the monoculture makes outbreaks of pest species much larger and more numerous than they would normally be.  This requires the use of pesticides to keep the crops usable, as well as vast quantities of fertilizers to replenish the soils leached of nutrients by year after year of all the nutritive value being taken from the field and sent off to make bread and twinkies.\n\nSo ecologically, meat production is much better for the environment than cereal crops.  Eating a cow may mean the death of one cow, but eating vegetarian kills the entire prairie ecosystem, which is the most endangered ecosystem on the planet (less than 1% of original native grassland still exists in the world).\n\nSo eat a steak for the planet!!
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Yes. Buy milk related products as a visual demonstration of the importance of the cow goddess in Ancient India that was considered the giver of life. Explain why the goods you brought, visually demonstrate the significance of the cow in daily life, and in the Hindu religion. Finally, prepared a few visual effects with a projector, to show the images of the cow goddess as they were commonly drawn in India. You can find some online or in a book about Indian mythology. Accompany the visual images by your explanation of the role religion gave the cow. If you can, touch upon the various names given to the cow, to denote her various aspects. Mention that fact that other cultures, like the Egyptian one, worshiped the cow as well, and show from there the possible cultural exchange between different countries. That's just one idea. Good Luck.
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Good question. \nI guess it can only be to do with the choice of local women. It is only dirty if the sheep has not mastered the use of a shower....\n\nAnyway. A bit of research has revealed the following, which should answer your question about the welsh and animals - in this case cows. Enjoy........ :-) The Welsh bit is last on the list....\n\nSOCIALISM: \nYou have two cows and you give one to your neighbour. \n \nCOMMUNISM: \nYou have two cows; the government takes both and gives you some milk. \n \nFASCISM: \nYou have two cows; the government takes both and sells you some milk. \n \nNAZISM: \nYou have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. \n \nBUREAUCRATISM: \nYou have two cows; the government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away. \n \nTRADITIONAL CAPITALISM: \nYou have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. \n \nAN AMERICAN CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow dropped dead. \n \nA FRENCH CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. \n \nA JAPANESE CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them worldwide. \n \nA GERMAN CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. \n \nAN ITALIAN CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch. \n \nA RUSSIAN CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 12 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. \n \nA SWISS CORPORATION: \nYou have 5,000 cows, none of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them. \n \nA CHINESE CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers. \n \nAN INDIAN CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. You worship them. \n \nA BRITISH CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. Both are mad. \n \nA WELSH CORPORATION: \nYou have two cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
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WHY WOULD YOU WANT WORK IN INDIA WHEN THE PEOPLE SMELL LIKE B.O. AND THERE'S COW SH1T ALL OVER THE STREETS!!!!!
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It isnt that they worship them... \n\nHinus believe that all animals have Atman or soul and thus should not be killed. Also killing leads to bad karmic consequences and the consumption of flesh is not sattvic; meaning one can not achieve full spirituality or a close connection with Lord.