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Word for cow raising?

what's the word to represent the whole industry of cattle raising like the one for beef?
thank you
Mike
  

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[nq:1]what's the word to represent the whole industry of cattle raising like the one for beef? thank you[/nq] I think a distinction is usually made between the beef industry (which provides meat) and dairy farming (which provides milk, cream and cheese). I can't think of one word that covers both, unless it's "boviculture" which Googled 267 times for me.

  • [nq:1]what's the word to represent the whole industry of cattle raising like the one for beef?
  • thank you[/nq] I think a distinction is usually made between the beef industry (which provides meat) and dairy farming (which provides milk, cream and cheese).
  • I can't think of one word that covers both, unless it's "boviculture" which Googled 267 times for me.
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[nq:1]what's the word to represent the whole industry of cattle raising like the one for beef? thank you[/nq]
I think a distinction is usually made between the beef industry (which provides meat) and dairy farming (which provides milk, cream and cheese).
I can't think of one word that covers both, unless it's "boviculture" which Googled 267 times for me.
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[nq:1]what's the word to represent the whole industry of cattle raising likethe one for beef? thank you Mike[/nq]
I think you have to refer to two industries: the "beef industry" and the "dairy industry." However, male calves born to dairy cows become either sources of veal or beef, that is, they're sold to the beef industry, and dairy cows themselves are eventually slaughtered for beef.. Or w
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[nq:1]I can't think of one word that covers both, unless it's "boviculture" which Googled 267 times for me.[/nq]
Which is good old "cattle farming", and doesn't that cover it adequately? If it absolutely has to be in a single word, let's make it cattlefarming.
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I have a personal aversion, shared by none I fear, to the use of "industry" applied to the travel industry, insurance industry etc. Industry is big, black buildings full of noisy machines.

A little while ago I was asked to help out with a creative writing course in Hampshire. "How many in the class?" I asked. "Oh, it's not a class," trilled a dumb tamponette, "I
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[nq:2]The "beef industry"?[/nq]
[nq:1]I have a personal aversion, shared by none I fear, to the use of "industry" applied to the travel industry, insurance industry etc. Industry is big, black buildings full of noisy machines.[/nq]
Well, even though I used the phrase or at least quoted it, you aren't alone. I don't like it much either.
Would "the beef business" or "the travel business"
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[nq:1]A little while ago I was asked to help out with a creative writing course in Hampshire. "How many in ... that case," I replied, "Include me out; I'd hate trying to make myself heard above all that hammering and banging."[/nq]
There is a cogent difference between "class" and this sense of "workshop". In a writing class, a teacher is employed to explain to the members of the class how to w
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[nq:2]raising like the The "beef industry"?[/nq]
[nq:1]I have a personal aversion, shared by none I fear, to the use of "industry" applied to the travel industry, insurance industry etc. Industry is big, black buildings full of noisy machines.[/nq]
Shared by me.
I object to the taxi industry.
I object even more to the "products" that are "marketed" by the insurance and banking indu
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[nq:1]I have a personal aversion, shared by none I fear, to the use of "industry" applied to the travel industry, insurance industry etc. Industry is big, black buildings full of noisy machines.[/nq]
I share your aversion to that word as I encountered it more in industry (rather than academe) where it was indeed merely a euphemism employed by the Human
Resources department (ugh again!) to
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[nq:2]All you've done is define one of the many forms ... academiaspeak is that it quickly identifies *** and muddled thinking.[/nq]
[nq:1]But it's far from the case that every workshop, in the sense described above, is a class. If someone told ... and mutual comiseration about writing and a wide variety of other : topics. This is certainly not a writing class.[/nq]
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[nq:1]Part of the problem stems from my youth - before I had encountered the use of this term as more ... and the operator of said instrument who interposed it deftly at the critical moment between the bull and the cow.[/nq]
****** ****. That sounds like a dangerous job. Imagine a poor "facilitator" whose departure is slowed by his or her slipping on a cow pat. "What do I

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