In India, Cow is more of divine than Bovine. As author rightly mentioned "Agriculture-plus-dairying became the backbone", in Indian civilization, it has been imbibed in culture that they both go hand in hand.Their interdependence is well known Cow eats Grass/waste crops, Cow dung/urine is used as manure for the crop and mosquito repellants etc. And outputs of both are enjoyed by the farmer - Crop and Milk products :)
Why not eat the bulls for meat as well?
Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation
by desigooner on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:56AM
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Up until recently, most of Indian farming depended on (and still does to a good extent) on Bulls ploughing the fields for seeding. That and bullock carts as transport.
That answers my question then - they get castrated and used for transport.
Bulls make more cows?
You only need one to impregnate lots of cows.
I wonder what happens to the male offspring of Cows in India?
not if you want a reasonably distributed gene pool, diversity of genes is always a good idea
Today, India is the largest producer of Milk in the world, and that goes a long way in providing nutrition to its masses.