A Cow's Center of Gravity

The other night, T and I were in the car running a couple of errands. We had gotten to talk about deer hunting because my niece, little T, is doing just that with her mother's side of the family. They're big hunters. I personally don't get it. It's November so it's cold, and it's Western Washington, so it's wet, so it's not for me. But it's a tradition for little T's maternal side, so they go.

My T (tall T, 'cause he ain't fat) made the comment about how he doesn't see the difference between hunting a deer and slaughtering a cow for food. Seriously it's not like the cows are equipped with shotguns to fight back any more than the deer are, and the lack of opposable thumbs would hamper their shooting ability, even if they were armed. T went on to make the point that deer can outrun most people, but he felt that cows were slower than people. What that has to do with anything is beyond me, but it was one of those car conversations, so we went with it. I told T that when cows stampede, it seems to me like they're running pretty fast, so if they chased you, they'd probaby catch you. T said that you'd just have to make a 90-degree turn to get away because, in his opinion, a speeding cow is like my SUV. If you try to make a sharp turn at a high speed, it's going to roll over. Which cracked me up. Because I've never in my almost 41 years had occasion to consider where exactly a cow's center of gravity is. Is it high like an SUV. If it is, and the cow would indeed tip over trying to make a sharp turn at a high rate of speed, would the inside legs just snap? And if both inside legs snapped, would that be it for the cow? Would he/she go straight off to the slaughterhouse? That would make me sad. Of course, I'd still eat the meat. I do appreciate grilled flesh of cow. Very much.