Everything I hear how cow farmers need to take care of their stock baffles me more and more how these were able to survive for so long
A cow needs to be milked every certain period to avoid infections, bruising, death
A cow needs help with the birth of a calf, as its sometimes a process which cant be done by a cow itself
A cow builds up gasses in their stomachs, requiring punctures to avoid sickness, death
And not to mention the parasites, specific diets, and maybe some other things I wouldn’t know about
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Each of these problems was caused by a human.
We selectively bred cows for more milk production and breed them regularly so that they keep producing milk, and milk them to keep the demand. In the wild, cows only produce milk for their young and might not have young every season and they naturally wean their young after some time.
We selectively bred cows to be bigger to yield more meat, producing larger offspring resulting in riskier deliveries. The access to high calorie fed also makes their babies bigger.
A domestic cow diet is full of processed food that is high in calorie and makes flatulence more likely. In the wild, cows eat fresh plants, mostly grass. They still have gasses, but not to that degree.
And of course, many cows die in the wild from parasites or infections or predators, but at the same time, they aren’t that susceptible to parasites if they aren’t in farms of thousands of cows. Plus once they reach adulthood, wild cows aren’t preferred prey of many predators.
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