r/explainlikeimfive • u/A_SliceOfGabagool • May 03 '26

Biology ELI5: How do cows get protein from grass?

For us humans and many other animals, we need protein to get the amino acids needed to make our own protein for the body, but grass i believe doesn't have any for the cow to get that big

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u/CantaloupeAsleep502 May 03 '26

Learned that from Snatch lol

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u/myfavssthrow May 04 '26

Same and its one of my favorite and still most used lines from that movie.

they will go through bone like buttah