Posted on 06/20/2022 12:40:36 AM PDT by surroundedbyblue
I know that video clip going around looks awful, but let me give some context here.
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 deads 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. They were not on ranches, grazing. They were in feedlots. Standing on dirt, in fenced pens, eating grain (corn) and drinking water from feed troughs all day every day. These cattle hadn’t seen a ranch, or eaten a blade of grass, in months.
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 deads, 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at barnhardt.biz ...
Sounds like our diet.
Cow number one dies. I’m guessing nobody pays much attention. Same for the next few cows. At what number does this become noticeable?
Live cows are valuable, dead ones not so much. How many dead cows does it take to make an economic impact?
Is there anything that can be done to keep them alive? How expensive would this be? Could it be done in real time?
When government/media tells you they know the cause then you know for a fact that what they are saying is a partial truth if that factor was involved in the situation at all.
If you are actually interested in the subject then THOUSANDS OF CATTLE SUSPICIOUSLY DIE in Kansas Heat Wave. | WHAT HAPPENED? is a video that goes into many of the theories and why it wasnt likely to be "just heat" and many of the other theories cant explain it as lone causes.
10,000 dead yesterday is a non-event, how government spins this tomorrow is where your focus should be.
“In the former United States,” what is that supposed to mean?
Yeah the podcast discusses that. The deaths were related to heat but it happens and is not significant. The government will spin it and use it to justify “global warming” and/or Biden inflation. Ann’s entire point in her podcast is that this, again, happens, always has always will. And will happen again. She wants people to know that this isn’t some rare event so that they don’t get scammed as we have been on so many issues.
The number of cows in Kansas alone is 6 million with several million on feedlots at any given time. 10,000 dead is not significant. Don’t let anyone spin you.
The author did a 50-ish minute podcast that explains all that. See the link above.
Ann Barnhardt, author of this essay, believes that the US was fundamentally changed with the Obama administration and is not the country it once was
I hope you take this comment in the spirit it is intended. I’m not sufficiently interested to watch a 50 minute podcast.
If you and the author are satisfied this is not unusual, so am I. It is surprising that this state of affairs makes economic sense.
It would not surprise me if someone made up numbers, hoping it would spark an element of panic.
Freegards
Re: 2 - Any more than some of the same doomers were selling it on the original thread, which the OP added “#GreatReset” to the title of their vanity post.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4071390
If you take a look at that thread, some of the posters were FReepers that were dooming it in March/April/May 2000 on the COVID-19 threads and pushing narratives to hose down your mail and groceries to wash off SARS-CoV-2, etc. It was all fear, all the time.
Re: 7 - So, what SHOULD Barnhart said? I guess something you could agree with.
Good grief, people are so intellectually lazy. Cattle, sheep, people die from heart stress. But because it does not have a tinge of conspiracy, it can’t be believed?
Just another example of how much FReeper posting quality has declined.
Apologies for misspelling Ann’s last name!
Re: 30 - Excuse me you low-life conservative, stop complaining about fellow FReeper posting quality. After all your movement hasn’t accomplished anything of note for the past 30 years. Please look in the mirror before you criticize others on this board.
“...Is there anything that can be done to keep them alive? How expensive would this be? Could it be done in real time?” [Tymesup, post 22]
Veterinary specialists in southwest Kansas have likened the recent cattle losses to a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake: minimal to no warning time. It might be theoretically possible to stave it off but people (and animals) caught in the middle haven’t the time.
https://www.southdakotamagazine.com/cattlemans-blizzard
In early October 2013, western South Dakota was hit with an unprecedented early blizzard; two to four feet of wet, heavy snow driven on winds up to 70 miles per hour.
A month later, confirmed livestock deaths stood at 13,977 cattle, 1,257 sheep, 287 horses and 40 bison.
A full accounting was never made; unconfirmed estimates range as high as 27,000 to 28,000 lost head of cattle. Uncertainty remains, as disaster claims are still not fully reconciled.
Many herds in western South Dakota range widely over large expanses of land. Ofttimes, ranchers don’t see their stock for many days at a stretch. Concerning that 2013 storm, it likely would have been infeasible to take any measures in time to save any significant number of animals.
To date, no suggestions have appeared, alleging the storm was a conspiracy.
Unfavorable conditions sometimes come together with little notice, to cause lethal heat stress to cattle. That is likely what happened in southwestern Kansas.
Thanks for the info
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