re: Thousands of beef cattle suddenly drop dead in Kansas

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Are you saying cows are butchered live?

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Are you saying you would be fine with eating meat from cattle that had been dead an unknown amount of time, that were laying in the summer heat, and had died from an unknown cause?

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According to veterinarian Miles Theurer, Research Director for Veterinary Research and Consulting Services, based in Hays, Kan., market-ready cattle, with a high percentage of empty body fat, didn’t have ample time to acclimate from those low temperatures to the high temperature spikes.

“The weather event was the perfect storm, resulting in significant issues for the feedlot industry,” Theurer says.

In addition to the high heat, there was also higher than normal relative humidity in the area, with no wind speed, he said. The Mesonet shows winds averaged 5 mph over the course of the weekend, with relative humidity averaging 44.9% to 69.6%. The High Plains typically have more wind and lower humidity, allowing cattle to cool themselves better. There just wasn’t a time when the temperatures dropped enough to dissipate the heat and it accumulated adding to the stress, Theurer says.

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On my phone so this may look like a wall of text.

These animals died from heat stress. While the total number of cattle dead in this event may be higher than most times these events, while not normal, aren’t uncommon. You can look up similar events in 2009, 2010, 2013 at least.

The combination of heat, humidity, and no wind is what can lead to this, it isn’t just temperature by itself. The other factor is the lack of night cooling during this time. That’s when cattle can dissipate their heat load from the day.

The reason cows aren’t as affected compared to these calves is in feedlot pens there is no shade and they are on dirt not grass so the surface temperature is also higher here. Add in level of finish decreasing their ability to dissipate heat even further and you can get train wrecks like these.

Can’t speak to anything else going on in the world but this is the industry that pays my bills and involves working in SW Kansas. I promise there is no government conspiracy here.

Also, those calves have been placed in rows like that to either compost, bury, count, or something else.

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relative humidity averaging 44.9% to 69.6%.

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They don't know what high humidity even looks like.

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It is not the heat. It is just as hot here and all cows are ok.

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These cows were in a feed lot, waiting to be slaughtered... It means they were about as fat as there were going to get AND in a pen / feedlot with minimal airflow...

It is not the same as cattle and other animals in the open or even younger steers that were not at a kill weight...

Did they get the jab? Sudden Cow Death Syndrome.

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Did they get the jab? Sudden Cow Death Syndrome.

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Someone close to me got the booster and within a few days, she developed memory issues and was diagnosed with a prion disease not unlike Mad Cow Disease and Chronic Wasting in deer and elk. She died within several weeks of the booster. It's called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

This was and is not a natural occurrence, someone poisoned these animals, just like all these food planes being destroyed is an accident.

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