Author Topic: Cattle dead and farmers baffled (Read 8561 times)

Mr G · « **Reply #20 on:** June 17, 2022, 08:09:04 AM »

As a cattle person, I need to weigh-in on the “mass cattle die-off” video that’s going around. | Barnhardt

From Ann:

As a cattle person, I need to weigh-in on the “mass cattle die-off” video that’s going around.

There has been extreme heat and humidity in Western Kansas and cattle have died. This is normal, and 10,000 head total statewide is not a “mass die-off that will cripple the beef supply.” Not even close.
There are roughly six million cattle in Kansas. Of those, over two million are “on feed” in confinement feedlots in the western half of the state.

In the former United States, something like 125,000 head of cattle are slaughtered per day, Monday through Friday, with a reduced kill on Saturday. So, as you can see, 10,000 dead in a heatwave is statistically insignificant.

The cattle shown in the video were not on pasture, they were in a confinement feedlot, as we can see by their size and the reportage says “fat cattle”. That means: in the feedlot approaching slaughter weight.
The reported “epicenter” of this heat event was Ulysses, KS. That’s my old stomping grounds, and I would take a spitball guess that within a 100 mile radius of Ulysses, KS there are close to a million cattle on feed in confinement feedlots, maybe more.

So 10,000 dead, statewide, really isn’t a “massive die-off”.

In the video, what you are seeing is cattle that died in the pen of heat stress, and the feedlot has used loaders to move the carcasses out of the pens, in preparation for burial. They will probably bring in Caterpillars to dig trenches and dispose of the carcasses thusly, according to the law, and common sense. Those carcasses cannot be processed, even for dog food, if I’m not mistaken. Can you imagine just the cost of the diesel to haul those carcasses to a rendering plant?

Also note that almost all the cattle are BLACK. Imagine that you weigh 1200+ pounds, have a giant fermentation vat inside your belly, and you are in a pen in SW Kansas, and the heat index is 105 degrees. Now, let’s also say that you have a low-grade respiratory virus, and thus you can’t purge heat as quickly as you should through respiration, and you are wearing a black fur coat.
You gonna die.

Do you know what the top-end of the “thermal neutral zone” of cattle is – that is the temperature at which the animal must work to stay cool? It’s 55 degrees Fahrenheit. If you say the top-end of the human TNZ is in the upper-70s, then 100 degree temps are to cattle like what 125 degrees, outside, with no shade, with a full belly like Thanksgiving dinner all the time, would be to us.
Is this starting to make sense?

This isn’t Bill Gates killing cattle. Not that Bill Gates isn’t one of the most evil men alive, worthy of capital crimes against humanity trial and punishment, nor that he isn’t trying to eliminate meat and essentially control the food supply. He is. But 10,000 dead in a triple-digit heatwave in western Kansas isn’t a nefarious “Mass Die-off” that will cripple the beef supply. It simply isn’t. This has happened before – much worse, in fact- and will happen again. Heat death loss is a calculated and accounted-for risk in cattle feeding. It’s part of the deal.

I hope this context helps.

For reference, it does appear that 10,000 deaths is not as common as Ann thought:

From 2017: California Heat Wave Kills Thousands of Cattle and Overwhelms Dairy Industry | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com

From : 2009: Heat wave proves deadly for Nebraska cattle - Wikinews, the free news source

From 2010: Kansas heat wave has killed 2,000 cattle: state | Reuters

TKGS · « **Reply #21 on:** June 17, 2022, 08:27:37 AM »

This adds a whole new context to the story. Thanks for posting.

epiphany · « **Reply #22 on:** June 17, 2022, 08:47:08 AM »

I completely forgot about feed-lot cattle...
Inhumane.

LeMond · « **Reply #23 on:** June 17, 2022, 06:30:47 PM »

Energy weapons used here. Then they can frame and scapegoat organic farmers and justify further government tyranny. Also, companies like Bayer (Monsanto) have private mercenaries to commit acts of killings, sabotage, surveillance ... you name it ... against anyone they deem an impediment to their monopoly over the food and bioscience supply.

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2022, 01:05:14 AM »

https://www.beefmagazine.com/livestock/vaccines

According to this magazine, Vets are pushing new vaccine this spring. ( and we are eating this meat with these new vax).

(The cattle probably died from heat if they were inside building. Poor animals.

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