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Cows have different diets than humans do. Cattle are designed to eat grass and other coarse plant matter, whereas humans are designed to eat animal protein and finer plant material like nuts and fruit. Cows need the extra compartments in their stomachs to efficiently break down the coarse material so that they can get the needed nutrition from it, otherwise they would starve to death.

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