What would you do with the cow?

Question

A cow is blissfully grazing beneath a tree in your yard. A big branch breaks, falls, and kills the cow. What would you do?

1. Let it rot.
2. Bury it and use it as fertilizer.
3. Cremate it.
4. Invite your friends over for a barbecue.

Do you have any other ideas?

Answer 1

I would let nature take its course, so 1. Other animals could scavenge, animals that truely need to kill or eat dead corpses to survive. Humans on the other hand do not need meat, not for survival, not even for health.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hmm, how about neither of these? Or actually, make that #4, with a purely veg*n barbecue and show people the plight of the cow. The very sight may make them sympathetic enough to not eat any beef or other cow meat during that time.
Another option would be to...umm...sprinkle it all over with salt and other preservatives and wrap it up in plastic and maintain it as a statue as a momento. Or, donate it to a cow-worshipping place such as a Hindu temple. The benefits from doing such an action I would think would outweigh the costs of actually transporting the cow there.
Why I don't say yes to the other options:
#1 - no because it would stink up the place
#2 - never knew cows could be used as fertilizer, I thought it was only their dung
#3 - an option in my culture but the very thought sounds disturbing

Answer 4

I would call animal control and ask them how they would dispose of the body. Seeing as how I cannot move an entire cow on my own, I would use there advice to figure out what to do. I would want to burry it if I could or something along those lines. The poor cow!

Answer 5

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Answer 6

find the owner of the cow, as they tend not to magically appear ownerless. i wouldn't suggest anyone eat a cow that was killed without knowledge of how that cow was raised - it may have an illness that's being medicated and is therefore unfit for human consumption. furthermore, some cows aren't bred for eating, but for other purposes so it may not be as tasty as you would like to believe. the cost of transporting a cow to a butcher or cremating it would be insanely expensive. if the owner couldn't be located i would call animal control before it started to stink up my place ;)

Answer 7

None of the above, most likely the branch would not kill it but it could break a bone or two. So I would call the Vet and give Medical help. But if it did die I would give him a funeral.
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Answer 8

the only pheasable option is to let it rot. All the others is alot of work. you cant bbq it becaue you have to move it to a clean location and moving a dead cow takes machinery.
you have to have big machinery to bury it. You set it on fire you might burn alot more than the cow. So I would let it rot, if you do not have close neighbors and the buzzards will eat it too. Sorry to rain on a parade.

Answer 9

Since this is the vegetarian/vegan section, I assume you're just asking this to be stupid.

But I guess I would do #3, and not because I'm a hippie, I just don't have any other ideas.

Answer 10

I don't have a tree big enough to fall and kill a cow in my front yard.