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.
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?
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.
October 2013 I was on a road trip from WA to Ohio for a firearms class, and coming out of Rapid City, SD headed eastbound the local news was abuzz about an early snow storm that caused large herd losses of cattle.
Now, I don't want to say that massive die offs due to heat are abnormal, as I'm not in the know of what is normal, but large die offs due to weather phenomena are not unheard of.
I can at least believe its heat. I live in Kansas, and this heat came out of nowhere. So its entirely within the realm of possibility that some ranchers didnt have time to get their livestock and pastures ready for the heat.
It was averaging about 95 F statewide, with some parts getting into the 100 F range. Its on the high end of the usual summer range, but it is "normal". What is not normal is that for the last several weeks it had been in the 80's, then we had a severe storm roll through a few days ago and it almost immediately jumped into the high 90's and 100's in the span of 48 hours or less. So not only would you have the stress of severe weather, you now have rapid heat rises.
And like I said, I dont imagine that ranchers had time to get barns ready, get shade out, get wells tapped, and the other usual things that happen in the leadup to high heat. Especially since this kind of heat usually doesnt hit until July or August.
Also, local news is showing that the 10,000+ number is an "extreme worst case" number, and the actual numbers that have been seen so far are closer to the 2,500-3,000 range. So there is some hyperbole present in the tweet.
EDIT: I did a little more looking. Almost all of the deaths were at feedlots around Dodge City and Garden City. So these are the cattle getting ready to go to the slaughter houses and are on their final week of getting as fattened up as possible. But there have been some feedlots down there that tend to overpack their lots to try and get as many heads of cattle as possible through all at once, and have been slapped by the Kansas Farm Bureau over it. So It absolutely wouldnt surprise me if these were all cattle that were packed in close and it just caused mass overheating not just from the heat, but the packed conditions.
Cold is different. In those cases a lot of livestock can die by crushing and suffocating each other trying to stay warm. Pretty common thing when I was growing up, you'd do everything you could to prevent it and it would still happen. Heat though? I just can't remember that happening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Take it easy; if you'd mentioned some of the cattle were female you'd sound like Imp.
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?
No, my assertion was that "the left assassinated thousands of cows using a bio weapon has to be part of it" sounds fucking stupid.
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.
October 2013 I was on a road trip from WA to Ohio for a firearms class, and coming out of Rapid City, SD headed eastbound the local news was abuzz about an early snow storm that caused large herd losses of cattle.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-cattle-feared-dead-after-early-south-dakota-snowstorm/
Now, I don't want to say that massive die offs due to heat are abnormal, as I'm not in the know of what is normal, but large die offs due to weather phenomena are not unheard of.
I can at least believe its heat. I live in Kansas, and this heat came out of nowhere. So its entirely within the realm of possibility that some ranchers didnt have time to get their livestock and pastures ready for the heat.
Wasn't the temperature over 100 F out there? I suspect those are not normal temps for Kansas, right?
It was averaging about 95 F statewide, with some parts getting into the 100 F range. Its on the high end of the usual summer range, but it is "normal". What is not normal is that for the last several weeks it had been in the 80's, then we had a severe storm roll through a few days ago and it almost immediately jumped into the high 90's and 100's in the span of 48 hours or less. So not only would you have the stress of severe weather, you now have rapid heat rises.
And like I said, I dont imagine that ranchers had time to get barns ready, get shade out, get wells tapped, and the other usual things that happen in the leadup to high heat. Especially since this kind of heat usually doesnt hit until July or August.
Also, local news is showing that the 10,000+ number is an "extreme worst case" number, and the actual numbers that have been seen so far are closer to the 2,500-3,000 range. So there is some hyperbole present in the tweet.
EDIT: I did a little more looking. Almost all of the deaths were at feedlots around Dodge City and Garden City. So these are the cattle getting ready to go to the slaughter houses and are on their final week of getting as fattened up as possible. But there have been some feedlots down there that tend to overpack their lots to try and get as many heads of cattle as possible through all at once, and have been slapped by the Kansas Farm Bureau over it. So It absolutely wouldnt surprise me if these were all cattle that were packed in close and it just caused mass overheating not just from the heat, but the packed conditions.
Cold is different. In those cases a lot of livestock can die by crushing and suffocating each other trying to stay warm. Pretty common thing when I was growing up, you'd do everything you could to prevent it and it would still happen. Heat though? I just can't remember that happening.
I dont live near any animal farms but even plants dying like this is unnatural.
The only explanation is poison or disease.
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.
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.
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.
Meanwhile cows in Texas are doing just fine.
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.
Poison was my first thought as well.
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/
I thought I saw one headline suggest contaminated water at first.
we are living through a multi-episode GI Joe storyline
Any UFOs spotted there recently?
Unidentified Faggot Operatives?
What's a word that starts with U that means glowing? That would be the ultimate acronym!
Uminescent Faggot Operatives
Ultraviolet Faggot Operatives.
Yea that’s odd because ranchers know to have shade and watering holes.
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.