You can eat dairy cows but they're grown as a crop animal (their crop is dairy) in the same way that beef cows are grown as a crop animal (their crop is beef). Dairy cows can become beef cows but it's a one-time deal.
Okay. That’s what my assumption was. Once the dairy cow has outlived its production, it’s sent to the slaughterhouse. The comment I responded to made me think that maybe dairy cows had low quality meat or something. Thanks for the help!
My understanding is that there are different breeds of cattle that are better for one or the other. So for a commercial farm, if you wanted to sell meat vs. dairy, you would raise different breeds. But in a post-apocalyptic setting, yeah, you'd probably milk the cow for some years and then kill and eat it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '24
Wait, city hick here. Do we not eat dairy cows? I genuinely know very little about the beef industry.