Cow, Chicken, or Pig?

Cow, chicken, or pig, which is the most useful animal? I mean, we eat or drink something that comes from these animals almost everyday! I've always wondered about it, so let me put my weary wondering mind to rest.

Cow:

Of course we get milk from a cow, and then that contributes to cheese and ice cream. The ground chuck you buy to make hamburgers, spaghetti, tacos, etc. Then there's all the cuts of beef: round, sirloin, rib, tenderloin, brisket (corned beef) and so forth. You've got your roast beef, beef jerky, and then you can get into your different types of meat based on the type of cow, Angus, Kobe beef, etc.

Chicken:

Chicken produces an egg and we all know about the incredible edible egg. Then there's chicken which almost everyone likes, it's the easiest thing to put in anything. You can fry it, broil it, bake it, boil it, anything you want to do with it. There dark meat and white meat on a chicken, I prefer the white but I like the dark too. There's more chickens in the world than people so there's plenty to go around.

Pigs:

Pigs don't produce anything for vegetarians other than an oink but there's a laundry list of foods that come from this disgusting animal. Baby back ribs, ham, bacon, hot dogs, bologna, pork chops, Boston butts, tenderloin, trotters (pig's feet), and you can eat the tail and ears if you want but that's just gross.

So as you can see these three are very useful and are staples of the American diet. I have to rank them as follows:

3. Chicken - While you can do a lot with chicken there isn't much in the way of different tastes. The egg is good but not good enough to make it out of the 3rd spot.

2. Pig - You can pretty much eat every part of a pig and that certainly makes it useful. Although almost none if it is good for you, it is quite a tasty animal that can be used for a lot of different meals.

1. Cow - There are two distinctly different but equally as useful things coming from a cow in beef and dairy. Those two things just make the cow far and away the most useful animal in this debate I'm having with myself.

So that does it, the cow is the most useful.

JB