[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." - Kotaku In Action 2

[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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– xleb2 8 points 2 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 2 years ago +4 / -0

Poison was my first thought as well.

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– xleb2 5 points 2 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/