https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_in_religion_and_mythology#In_Gandhi.27s_teachings
Wat u found is just latter day hindu apologetic rhetorics bcos they know they look silly to the outside world
If that's not worship,wat else it's? (Does replacing worship by veneration make it more benign ?? Many people worship their favourite movie stars; do they kill for those stars ??)
"..Just over a decade ago (2002) in Dulina village of Jhajjar in Haryana, a mob of over a thousand people lynched five Dalits who were skinning a dead cow to sell the hide. A few months ago in Malegaon, Mahahrashtra, police arrested three Muslims on the charge of storing beef. On the back of this comes the news from Bisara that a Muslim was killed and his son injured seriously on charges of storing and eating beef.
In the context of the Dulina lynching, VHP's Acharya Giriraj Kishore at a press conference stated that “the life of a cow is more precious than that of a human being.”...
http://indianexpress.com/article/blogs/worshipping-cow-killing-humanity/