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[Tweet] "They did not die of extreme heat. I talked to multiple ranchers since I saw this video (one from Kansas) and they all say this needs to be investigated ASAP to get to the bottom of this because there’s no way heat caused 10,000+ cattle to drop dead. This is not normal." (archive.ph)
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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ [S] 20 points 3 years ago +20 / -0

Anyone here happen to have any experience living on a farm or in a rural area? I've lived in a relatively rural state for most of my life and tbh this story about the 10k cattle dropping dead because of "heat" seemed pretty strange. Not normal, indeed.

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– LauriThorne 32 points 3 years ago +32 / -0

10K cattle but no huge numbers of wildlife worth reporting on?

That sets off my BS detector. The left want us to stop eating meat, this has to be part of it.

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– MaximumHonk 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Take it easy; if you'd mentioned some of the cattle were female you'd sound like Imp.

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– Kaarous 17 points 3 years ago +17 / -0

Just so I understand, your assertion here is that the left does not in fact want to disincentivise, discourage or in many cases outright prohibit eating meat?

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– MaximumHonk 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

No, my assertion was that "the left assassinated thousands of cows using a bio weapon has to be part of it" sounds fucking stupid.

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– Kaarous 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Poison more likely, from a central food source. While a lot of things can be laid at the feet of that hook nosed goblin Fauci, this doesn't look like his handiwork.

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– Gizortnik 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

I don't have any personal knowledge, but I will say that heat can be very dangerous to fuck with.

If those cattle were exposed to elevated temperatures due to bad living conditions, or if the cooling systems broke, the heat could be lethal.

Think about it like this, mammals generate body heat. The rule of thumb I've used is that a human generates the same amount of heat as an old incandescent light bulb. Now, put a few hundred of them in a room, then cut off air circulation. It will not take long for people to over-heat, feel like their suffocating, and start panicking. In dense spaces, you could get a "crush" or something worse. People just falling over each other could (and does) kill hundreds at a time.

If these industrial farms experienced power failures or bad conditions combined with heat waves, you could get mass deaths.

IIRC there was a heat wave in Chicago in the 1970's that killed well over 150 people. Lots of poor people buried in mass graves because no one claimed the bodies.

I don't know what happened, I'm just saying, heat is actually quite dangerous and I'm not willing to just throw it out until: we look into the situation with a proper investigation as the man said. Hell, it could still be misconduct.

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– TakenusernameA 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I dont live near any animal farms but even plants dying like this is unnatural.

The only explanation is poison or disease.

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– GeneralBoobs 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

Most of those look like black angus steer. Angus is a highland breed of cattle, cool climate animal. A sudden, intense heatwave for an animal with a dark hide will cause sunstroke. Angus is a big money cow, but is not built to grow in the U.S. market. It's considered a risky breed among historic cattlemen.

Florida, fun fact, was the largest cattle producer in the western hemisphere for a time. The breed? Florida Cracker Cattle. Small cows with lean frames that could sustain themselves on scrub in drought conditions. Heavy breeds only came about 100 years ago because they were finally able to tolerate and florida was being reengineered by the Army Corps of Engineers. By then, more heat tolerant breeds were being introduced elsewhere and Florida's market collapsed.

Heat tolerant does not mean they can survive the extremes, it means they can take the averages. Like citrus, cattle are a risky investment in most places outside their native habitat.

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– GeneralBoobs 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Many possibilities but all of them agreed it wasn’t the heat.

Heat doesn't just kill directly. There are pests that grow in water during extreme heat. It turns stomachs and cows use bacteria to digest their food. Heat causes certain genetically modified grasses to become cyanotic. Releases of toxic chemicals/toxic blooms from ground cracking during the heat. Lightning strikes in a feed lot, especially when the ground is compacted from heat/foot prints and water can't drain into the soil.

There are lots of reasons, but heat is a good general idea.

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– GeneralBoobs 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

No, added more context. Because the idiot was so certain it wasn't the heat, but it clearly is the fucking heat one way or another.

Forgot to add in the original post and it was long enough already.

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– xleb2 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

There are some real oddities in the video - thousands of dead cattle inside a bare enclosure - feed lot? If they were crowded together in a feed lot they could have overheated ... plenty of cattle feed lots in Kansas.

If they were in a feed lot they were all eating the same thing, usually corn. That would be the first thing I looked at in a huge die-off like that, contaminated feed.

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– Kaarous 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Poison was my first thought as well.

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– xleb2 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Aflatoxin poisoning?

Aflatoxin, a chemical produced by infectious mold, could be coming to the Corn Belt - https://grist.org/agriculture/corn-belt-midwest-aflatoxin-climate-change/

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– Knife-TotingRat 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

I thought I saw one headline suggest contaminated water at first.

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– acp_k2win 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

we are living through a multi-episode GI Joe storyline

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– Assassin47 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

Any UFOs spotted there recently?

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– TentElephant 13 points 3 years ago +13 / -0

Unidentified Faggot Operatives?

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– Auntie_Mildred 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

What's a word that starts with U that means glowing? That would be the ultimate acronym!

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– TentElephant 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

Uminescent Faggot Operatives

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– TakenusernameA 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Ultraviolet Faggot Operatives.

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– Smith1980 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

Yea that’s odd because ranchers know to have shade and watering holes.

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– OldBullLee 2 points 3 years ago +2 / -0

Does Alex Jones have a take on this? His speculations frequently turn out to be correct.

I'd not be surprised if this is an assassination of cattle to advance the WEF and "environmentalist" agenda.

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