Is a cow a renewable or nonrenewable resource?

Answer 1

A cow, as an animal, is a renewable resource. They are also exhaustible because they are prone to extinction, just like all other animals on Earth.

In terms of products that come from cattle, that varies. Beef, being the meat from cattle, can be considered renewable if there are cattle available all the time to be slaughtered. However it is a non-renewable resource because cattle have to be killed in order to be made into meat. Milk, on the other hand, is a renewable resource as long as the cow is productive. It becomes no longer a renewable resource if the cow cannot produce anymore.