No, even a small cow would yield far too much meat. I read of one blogger bought an entire cow an ended up with 121 lbs of ground beef, and far more in the form of steaks and assorted other cuts.
http://preparetoeat.blogspot.com/2009/04/our-first-whole-cow.html
no because its not possible
Yes, if the cow is up for adoption. A more common term for animals could be rescued or purchased if the cow had a previous owner. As far as legally adopting a cow as your child, no, that would not be possible.
Yes, that is precisely how you contract mad cow.
no
That all depends on what reason the cow has to be killed for. If it's the cow's owner who's killing it for meat or because the cow is too ill to be saved, the person is still called the farmer or rancher. If it's someone who does not own the cow but a doctor of animals, and performs the act of "putting the cow down" via humane euthanasia, then that person is called the veterinarian. If it is someone who is killing the cow for meat only and has been hired by the cow's owner to do such a thing, as well as skin, gut and quarter the cow afterwards, that person is called the butcher.
Just part of it
No, the USDA grades the cow as a whole.
Not possible.
about 400 pounds for a whole cow but mabye only 350 for a pound of beef
1/4 of a whole butchered cow
the person who named the cow was named Henry Cow
You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs