when does cow becomes beef

[klondike118]

i was at work today and i got asked when does a cow become beef ?? as a chicken is a chicken so does eneyone know thanks

[mrs_overall]

Erm, I'd suggest you have a word with your parents and ask them to explain the essential facts of life to you.

A cow is female and used to breed and produce milk.
Beef is from male cattle.

To make new baby cows, you need a mummy and a daddy (or a nice man with a syringe).......

[tamborine]

A cow never becomes beef, in the consuming sense. Steers (castrated bulls) are beef.

[jadeymodel]

hahaha R U BEIN SERIOUS hahahahaha! Beef is frm a male cow hahaha. Its just the name...pork & ham are from a pig...regardless tht chicken is called chicken! hahaha

[kira000]

Cow is a generic term for this type of bovine, but the names break down further.

Before a female has its first calf, it is a heifer, a cow is a female, milk-producing bovine.

A bull is a male cow usually used to breed from, and a steer is a castrated male raised for beef.

It becomes beef once it has been slaughtered.

[mrs_overall]

I have a nice recipe for bulls b@lls if you want it.
They have a unique spongy texture.

[mrs_overall]

Zac, you're milking this one aren't you?

[crazycathy2]

this is a serious question

Are you saying then that beef comes from bull ocks? Yuck

[clydeserani]

Basically a Cow becomes beef when it is slaughtered for consumption. It doesn't matter if the "creature of the Bovine species" is male or female.

x.C.x

[Banali]

It dates back to Norman times.

The words for the animals: cows, pigs, sheep are Anglo Saxon in origin.

The words for the food produced from them are French in Origin Beef , Pork Mutton (Boeuf, Porc, Mouton).

Because the Nrmans were the nobility and the English were the serfs tending the animals.


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[Ice.Maiden]

When it's in a stew, klondike!
I'm allowed to say that, because you've had all teh sensible answers. x