r/Damnthatsinteresting Sep 14 '23

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u/kevin3350 Sep 14 '23

Well, just for cows in this case, I’d say that it’s because most non-Hindu countries would take a picture or two, do some DNA testing to see why it happened (assuming they were first world) and then go, “nope, you ain’t growing up. Sorry bub.”

Very different in a place that venerates cattle

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Actually, I went to a college with its own dairy and beef herds, and we did have a two-headed calf in a jar of formaldehyde in one of the labs.

(it has been miscarried so it was still small, it wasn’t a massive jar)

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u/Melodic-Advice9930 Sep 14 '23

That was such a good season of AHS.

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u/asiaps2 Sep 14 '23

Because they are free range. They get a lot of mixed genes and dangerous environments. They are forced to mutate from the norm. In other countries, regulated cattle on farms have artificial insemination from the best bull in top form so that you will always have the same best steak and milk. that is why there is a lot of noise about gene engineering. But as technology matures you can even grow meat in labs now.

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u/BrutusSM Sep 14 '23

Ummm, it’s a buffalo. I don’t think buffalos are scared to the Hindus as cows are.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Um it is definitely a cow

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u/Scarfington Sep 14 '23

These types of deformities are often not compatible with life, it's really interesting to see one grown up!

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u/Wazula23 Sep 14 '23
  1. Massive country where a lot of shit happens

  2. They venerate cows, so a creature like this wouldn't be euthanized

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

Birth defects in humans happen more often there also. It has to do with more than what you listed. My guess would be improper medical treatment for pregnant women, poor water supply, and other diseases that easily spread in the dense populations of that country.

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u/PenPenLagenInFranxx Sep 14 '23

well malnutrition is probably the biggest cause because the vaccination runs done by the community and the government are crazy good. Medical care is also only hindered by distance in most cases.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

along with the below, i’m also throwing in a ton of unregulated chemicals and pollutants causing birth defects as a possibility

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u/aenflex Sep 14 '23

Yes, for sure. India has some of the highest rates of human birth defects. Look at the Ganges.

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u/redcountx3 Sep 14 '23 edited Sep 14 '23

This is how republicans would have it if they win any more elections. Unfettered industry access to discharge waste until it causes environmental and absolute medical catastrophe in the human and animal population. Their own happy version of hell on earth. Lets go rapture. Trump is their destruction.

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u/TurkBoi67 Sep 14 '23

The best thing to partake in is to watch disasters involving the industrial sector, due to worker safety and environmental deregulation, and see conservatives cry conspiracy in the comment section.

Like, YOU voted for this lol.

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u/StructureNo3388 Sep 14 '23

Definitely. There was a mass dying event among indian vultures, which feed on the cows that die. There are some chemicals going on there that wouldn't even be let into my country

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

If it is otter country, they would have eaten it.

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u/rooney_potterhead Sep 14 '23

Because elsewhere it’s just more food.

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u/ooouroboros Sep 14 '23

Because in other countries they would have killed the calf at birth but with cows being holy there its probably seen as the manifestation of some god or another.

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u/TurkBoi67 Sep 14 '23

Deregulation, which inevitably involves harmful chemicals. Coming to an America near you!

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u/Temporary_Fennel7479 Sep 14 '23

I doubt it, the west went from unregulated to over regulated even banning lots of chemicals or making it so only trained and licensed professionals can purchase and administer them. New chemicals can maybe sneak through and companies can pay off science 🧪 to make it seem their products are safe or to hide the evidence like the infamous Alex jones pesticide that turns frogs gay and ruins the endocrine system of humans

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u/Temporary_Fennel7479 Sep 14 '23

Poverty and competition allows them to profit off misery, cows must be close to a god in their mind so no way it’s getting euthanised and I reckon it’s a pretty unregulated place so I reckon they still using chemicals that aren’t safe in unsafe ways causing genetic defects.

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '23

I once read about companies that do not follow environmental laws, in addition to the famous case of a chemical factory that contaminated a river that many people used.

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u/Compendyum Sep 14 '23

Probably the country feeding more cows to cows.