Setting out to be the Most Evil Nation

I admire your plan, but doesn't India have enough cows to supply you before you starve the world of them?

Pure genius.

Economic warfare. I like it!

First, you need to conquer all the provinces with cows or sphere those countries that have cows. But before that, you need also gain control of all the wheat and fish, right? Because people eat that stuff too.

Eh. Nevermind. Your plan is doomed.

There's a system of priorities to sort out which countries buy goods. It goes like this:
Sphere leaders get first dibs on spherelings' produce, everything left over goes to their private market
Spherelings buy anything left inside their sphere leader's market after the master in rank order, everything left over goes to the world market
Independent countries buy their own stuff before it goes to the world market, everything left over goes to the world market
All countries buy from what remains in the world market in rank order (great powers -> secondary powers -> civilised countries -> uncivilised countries)

RELee said:

First, you need to conquer all the provinces with cows or sphere those countries that have cows. But before that, you need also gain control of all the wheat and fish, right? Because people eat that stuff too.

Eh. Nevermind. Your plan is doomed.

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Just stop at the Cow provinces. Be Cow producer number 1, and let your people enjoy 100% satisfaction. No one else will live.

You can occupy all provinces with cows, to prevent production.
Or you can mod a game - land add 10000 cattle supply cost for tank,or airplane , and cheat one unit.
If you are GP 1 you will buy first, but this mean massive cost

You Sir, just won the internet for the best evil plan the world has ever seen!

As others have said, due to the way purchasing order is determined (a country gets to buy everything it wants from the goods produced by it and its spherelings before it goes on the world market) it is very hard to corner the market for a good that is as widespread as cattle. In fact, if you did manage to corner the market on cattle you've probably already won! The general concept is possible however, with rubber. Sadly, you won't cause mass starvation but you can screw over the industries of other nations. In one game as Brazil I produced the vast majority of the worlds rubber. Whenever another nation started producing cars or electric gears I'd buy it all up and watch their production drop to 0. Sadly you can't buy then toss goods, so periodically I had to sell all the rubber back if I wanted to repeat the tactic (which would also be a weakness with your cattle buying plan; eventually you would have to flood the world with cattle).

Very nasty plan there! But it looks like you would need to occupy/ annex almost all the food provinces for it to work. I think you could starve the world by 1936.