How do herbivores create and store so much fat?

Question

Cows eat grasses and stuff, so how do they become fatty beef?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I typed in the title of the thread in Google and the results were pretty interesting. Herbivores can get fat from eating carbohydrate, just as you can. The atoms that constitute fat are constructed from the chemical elements carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen (C,H,O) which also constitute carbohydrate of which grass is made up