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In India, Cow is more of divine than Bovine. As author rightly mentioned "Agriculture-plus-dairying became the backbone", in Indian civilization, it has been im

by yogrish 14y ago

In India, Cow is more of divine than Bovine. As author rightly mentioned "Agriculture-plus-dairying became the backbone", in Indian civilization, it has been imbibed in culture that they both go hand in hand.Their interdependence is well known Cow eats Grass/waste crops, Cow dung/urine is used as manure for the crop and mosquito repellants etc. And outputs of both are enjoyed by the farmer - Crop and Milk products :)

mahmud 14y ago
Why not eat the bulls for meat as well?
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- indiecore 14y ago
  Bulls make more cows?
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  - gadders 14y ago
    You only need one to impregnate lots of cows. I wonder what happens to the male offspring of Cows in India?
    - hnriot 14y ago
      not if you want a reasonably distributed gene pool, diversity of genes is always a good idea
      - gadders 14y ago
        Well, yes. You don't want one bull to do 100% of cows, but one bull can easily do an entire herd, and using In Vitro methods the most valuable bulls fertilise thousands of cows.
- desigooner 14y ago
  Up until recently, most of Indian farming depended on (and still does to a good extent) on Bulls ploughing the fields for seeding. That and bullock carts as transport.
  - gadders 14y ago
    That answers my question then - they get castrated and used for transport.