Is there any reason why almost universally chickens and cows are the go to farm animal? Like why aren’t there cultures where people are allergic to their produce and meat? Or we just got really lucky and domesticated the species that seems to just work for most if not all societies. Just seems weird that we picked cows and not some other big game like some bison or something. Why chickens? Why not ducks or geese?
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I don’t have a complete answer to tell you, unfortunately, but I’ll give you what I have.
I actually *am* allergic to cows. There is a tick called a longhorn tick that once you are bitten, you have a histamine reaction to beef protein.
It’s also very common for people to be lactose intolerant.
Chickens are particularly useful for farming because they lay eggs constantly, if not killed, giving us a sustained source of protein
Cows also give milk regularly, which also is a sustained source of protein
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