Very much so, yes.
Yes, cows have tails. Tails are very useful for swishing flies away.
Cows
Keeping cows off the ground and helping them move around.
Cows provide dairy products, such as milk and cheese.
some are useful as they provide us with food to survive. e.g. cows for meat chickens for eggs
Some useful animals that help us in are everyday use are animals like cows. Not only do we use cows for their meat and milk, and cheese, we also need the for helping graze the lands.
Cows are helpful by producing milk but are harmful by the amount of methane they create.
Bulls are best used for breeding cows and heifers. They are also used in rodeos and bull fighting as well as for beef, but their primary use and goal in life is to breed as many cows and heifers as possible and produce offspring.
NO religion - particularly those of India - considered cows to be "sacred". Cows are not sacred in India, this is a myth. Many Indians will not eat meat or beef, but that in no way signifies that they worship cows or consider cattle to be anything other that what they would represent to any farmer-based population. In other words, cows are useful beasts of burden which also provide milk etc. They are not worshipped in any way.
Cow is called mother of Hinduism because she gives milk & many useful products. Also lord Krishna was associated with cow.
The slaughter of infected (but not yet visibly sick) cows at the end of their useful farm lives, and the use of their carcasses for feed, spread the infection rapidly and widely