What happens if a cow accidently eats meat?

Question

Or any other animal designed to only eat plants?

I'm thinking that it will regurgitate it and spit it out---is this correct?

Answer 1

They routinely grind up meat parts and process it into cattle feed. That's one reason that they had a problem in Britain with the mad cow's disease - they still let them use, of all things, road kill in the cattle's food. We never allowed that here.

Cow's normally won't eat a piece of meat, at least when it looks like meat and tastes like meat. And they chew things up very thoroughly, so it is almost impossible that they would "accidentally" eat the stuff. It is only when it is ground up and dried and slipped in with oats and stuff that they eat it.

So since they SEEM fine with this, general health wise, I imagine that other plant eaters would seem to be, too. I believe they do this with poultry feed also. How they really are or feel.......

Answer 2

it depends on how much.

If it's just a little, it probably wouldn't do anything. It would just pass thought the cow undigested. If it was a lot, the cow may react to the meat the same way a cat would react to grass, and throw it up.

You'd have to force feed the cow that much meat though.

Answer 3

Mad-cow disease,one of the outcomes of factory farming.

D. Diseases linked to factory farming
1.Mad cow disease
a. “BSE caused a major epidemic in cattle. More than 183,000 cases of BSE were confirmed in the UK alone in more than 35,000 herds through the end of November 2003. The BSE epidemic in the UK peaked in January 1993 at almost 1,000 new cases per week. The outbreak may have resulted from the feeding of scrapie-containing sheep meat-and-bone meal to cattle. There is strong evidence and general agreement that the outbreak was amplified by feeding rendered bovine meat-and-bone meal to young calves.”(MedicineNet.com)
2. E-coli
“ Runoff from feedlots can contaminate ground and surface water, including water used to irrigate crops. Drinking or inadvertently swallowing untreated water from lakes and streams can cause infection. So can eating unwashed raw fruits and vegetables. And although public water systems use chlorine, ultraviolet light or ozone to kill E. coli, some outbreaks have been linked to contaminated municipal water supplies. Private wells are a greater cause for concern. If you have a private well, have it tested once a year for pathogens, including E. coli. Your state health department can help you find a laboratory certified to conduct the tests”(MayoClinic.com)
b. The E. coli out break in spinach in California was caused by contamination of the irrigation water used by the farms that used the water,The water was contaminated from fecal matter left by animals(specifically cows) bred in factory farms.
3.Crohn's disease
c. “Approximately half of the country's dairy cows suffer from mastitis, a bacterial infection of their udders. This is such a common and costly ailment that a dairy industry group, the National Mastitis Council, was formed specifically to combat the disease. Other diseases, such as Bovine Leukemia Virus, Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus, and Johne's disease (whose human counterpart is Crohn's disease) are also rampant on modern dairies, but they commonly go unnoticed because they are either difficult to detect or have a long incubation period.”

Answer 4

If it contains cow flesh especially brain or nerve fibers, there is a good chance the cow will contract mad cow disease.

this happens at the slaughter house where scraps are sold to animal food manufacturers (dog food, cow meal, etc.) the cow scraps get back in the cow food chain and this is bad news. I beleive they put some systems in place in recent years to stop the spread of mad cow disease.

Answer 5

despite in case you by probability consume some meat, you're nevertheless a vegetarian. people who've been vegetarian for two decades and by probability consume a sprint meat do no longer start up asserting they have in basic terms been vegetarian for sooner or later. it isn't any enormous deal, only pay extra interest to what you consume interior the destiny. Nor will a sprint steak make you grow to be morbidly obese or something.

Answer 6

Beef cows are fed many beef by products from the meat processing plant, it makes them fatter.

Answer 7

actually cows eat meat put in their food all the time.this is how mad cow disease came about cows eating the brains/organs of other cows.

Answer 8

How do you think mad cow started. They were feed ground up animal parts.

Answer 9

Or if it is fed brain matter and offal from other animals, it will cause B.S.E. or mad cow syndrome.

Answer 10

nothing dumbass my cow eats left over meat all the time. my cow eats anything i put in its face just like pigs they are garbage disposals.