Did anyone watch countryfile? Apparently cattle attacks are not a rarity.
37 farmworkers have been killed in the last 10 years by cattle or so they said, with injuries many times more frequent than that. The problem is the lack of properly collected statistics, so that "causes" are only anecdotal.
One breed has got media attention because of their attempt to grade and breed in "docile behaviour" - which is being taken by implication as that breed is more dangerous.
Seems to me to similar to the non sequitur false argument about cycling. Because athletics/ cycling has caught more cheats, it is ergo assumed a dirtier sport, which at least in part is because they are actually trying to catch them, unlike sports like american football, baseball etc as the "a rod" affair proves.! ie the breed they are trying to make more docile is probably no more dangerous, just because they are breeding to make it less so!
Also - apparently cow attacks are three times more likely than bull. although of course , bulls can still be far more dangerous, but very few bulls are put on land with public access - which inevitably distorts statistics in favour of cows
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