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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by yogrish on Monday October 29, 2012 @02:33AM (#4711322)
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 :)
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by mahmud on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:40AM (#4711506)
Why not eat the bulls for meat as well?
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by desigooner on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:56AM (#4711847)
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.
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gadders on Monday October 29, 2012 @09:24AM (#4712106)
That answers my question then - they get castrated and used for transport.
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by indiecore on Monday October 29, 2012 @07:44AM (#4711831)
Bulls make more cows?
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gadders on Monday October 29, 2012 @09:20AM (#4712098)
You only need one to impregnate lots of cows.

I wonder what happens to the male offspring of Cows in India?

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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by hnriot on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:12PM (#4714225)
not if you want a reasonably distributed gene pool, diversity of genes is always a good idea
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Re:The lactose-tolerance mutation by gadders on Monday October 29, 2012 @11:40PM (#4715906)
Well, yes. You don't want one bull to do 100% of cows, but one bull can easily do an entire herd, and using In Vitro methods the most valuable bulls fertilise thousands of cows.
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