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How are cows useful to humans?

Updated: 11/7/2022
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Cattle provide manure to be used as organic fertilizer for gardens, fields and pastures, they are a very cheap and natural means of keeping and using the grass to grow, as well as putting the wastes they excrete back into the soil to be used by the plants that feeds the cow.

Cattle that have been bred to produce more milk than their calves can drink are milked so that humans can drink that milk. Raw milk is also made into other various dairy products such as cheese, yogurt, ice cream and butter. When these cows are no longer productive and culled from the main dairy herd, they get turned into beef. Young cattle get fattened up to be turned into veal (for calves that are younger than 6 months of age), or beef (those steers or heifers that have been grown and fattened until they are 18 to 24 months of age).

The hides of slaughtered cows, calves, bulls, steers and heifers are made into shirts, jackets, coats, belts shoes, boots, accessories like purses and wallets, tack for horses (bridles, saddles, etc.) and upholstery for furniture and car seats.

Cattle also provide a lot more to humans than just milk and meat. No part of the animal is wasted: glands are used in pharmaceutical medicines, hair from inside the ears are used for camel-hair paint brushes, body hair for normal paint brushes, air filters, and home insulation, bones for knife and pistol handles and napkin rings, horns for decoration and holding gunpowder, fat for soaps and cosmetics like lotion, blood for making cinema (or movies), the list goes on.

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Cow gives us milk to drink, and also it helps in irrigation of the fields. It is used for transport also.

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