I don’t have skin in this game, but when people stop eating cows (or cow products), then cows will probably go extinct.
I don’t have skin in this game, but when people stop eating cows (or cow products), then cows will probably go extinct.
Even if cows aren’t eaten at all, they still have agricultural uses: mostly pulling heavy objects, but they also produce manure. A few cows aren’t expensive at all to keep if you have grassland to sustain them, and it’s possible to grow corn or hay for the winter. My mother’s family was quite poor, and practiced substinence agriculture, but they were entirely able to keep a few cows and bulls for these purposes (though they drank their milk and ate their meat as well, which massively drives up their practicality to raise).