Terran Cattle in all their varieties are one of the most raised and traded life stock life forms in the Union. Their meat and Dairy products are consumable by approximately 60 % of the Union Population (LDLS). Cattle, Pigs, Goats, Horses and Chicken left Earth alongside the first settlers and provided meat, leather, beasts of burden and draft animals.
Today such worlds as Wichita planet are geared almost entirely to the production of Cattle. While Vat grown beef is cheaper and produces consistent quality, life stock and natural grown beef is preferred by the market.
Cattle provide an annual market volume of 200 Trillion Credits including leathers, dung, animal by products and meat products.
The Dairy market adds another 180 Trillion Credits to the GDP of the Union.
Only Fish, Chicken, Pork and Seafood (other than Fish) are traded in larger volumes ( Food and agriculture Trade)[1]
There are fleets of dedicated life stock carriers criss-crossing the entire territory of the Union.
[1]According to the Union Commodity Trader Magazine 5020
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Cattle (colloquially cows) are the most common type of large [file:///wiki/Domestication domesticated] [file:///wiki/Ungulates ungulates]. They are a prominent modern member of the [file:///wiki/Subfamily subfamily] [file:///wiki/Bovinae Bovinae], are the most widespread species of the [file:///wiki/Genus genus] [file:///wiki/Bos Bos], and are most commonly classified collectively as Bos primigenius. Cattle are raised as [file:///wiki/Livestock livestock] for meat ([file:///wiki/Beef beef] and [file:///wiki/Veal veal]), as [file:///wiki/Dairy_cattle dairy animals] for [file:///wiki/Milk milk] and other [file:///wiki/Dairy_product dairy products], and as [file:///wiki/Ox draft animals] ([file:///wiki/Ox oxen] or [file:///wiki/Bovine_animal bullocks]) (pulling [file:///wiki/Cart carts], [file:///wiki/Plow plows] and the like). Other products include [file:///wiki/Leather leather] and [file:///wiki/Feces dung] for [file:///wiki/Manure manure] or [file:///wiki/Fuel fuel]. In some countries, such as [file:///wiki/India India], [file:///wiki/Cattle_in_religion cattle are sacred]. From as few as 80 progenitors domesticated in southeast Turkey about 10,500 years ago,[2] an estimated 1.3 billion cattle are in the world today.[3] In 2009, cattle became the first livestock animal to have a fully mapped [file:///wiki/Genome genome].[4]