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Domestic animals give food

Cattle, including cows and other members of the cattle family such as yak and buffalo, are the most important domesticated animals on earth.

Cattle, including cows and other members of the cattle family such as yak and buffalo, are the most important domesticated animals on earth.

They are work animals and provide us with half our meat, 80 percent of our leather and 95 percent of our milk. Cattle were among the earliest animals to be domesticated by people, probably after dogs.

Originally they were used for milk and work, and became a source of beef much later. - newworldencyclopedia.org; bigsiteofamazingfacts.com; wikipedia.org

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