Posted on 07/02/2021 8:02:11 PM PDT by blueplum
A cow will eat just about anything they can get in their mouths. I’ve seen them eat plastic, rubber, bones and even old carcasses. They ain’t that cute Jersey Cow on the side of milk cartons. The majority of cows raised in the US come of of ranches and they’ll eat anything they can find. I’ve had them eat old pump jack belts, vinyl pop up blinds and even electrical wiring. I’ve got one in particular takes great joy in eating the spark plug wires off my Ajax motors while they’re still running. They’ll even eat other animals feces. They especially like coyote scat for some reason, they hit it like it’s Hershey’s Kisses.
Most amusing in the extreme.
Last week cow farts were a menace to the planet due to methane which has a short half life of just a few years and we are now at stable state and methane due to cow farts is no greater today than 50 years ago.
But alas cows can apparently digest plastic and become a great boon to the environment and thus Gaia is saved.
This Texan has never seen a cow eat a plastic bottle.
About 14 years ago I delivered 24 tons of wheat hulls from an ADM flour plant near downtown Chicahgah to a big feedlot near Anamosa, IA. I thought it just another feed mill.... until I got there and saw that they fed all kinds of expired date, grain based, grocery store items. For example Hostess cupcakes, twinkies, and suzy-qs..... still in their wrappers (although the wrappers got torn up pretty good in the grinder mixer mill. I asked mill operator about and he said: USDA approved.
“It will pass”.
Wow
They certainly enjoy eating their own afterbirth (slurp sluuurrp). First time I saw that I was probably age 5. My sis (3 yrs older) still remembers me standing there, eyes and mouth wide open. I remember my sons first times and reactions. Lol
Break it down to what?
“”A cow actually ingesting plastic is a death sentence. Painful for the cow. “”
That’s just not true at all. We’ve been raising cows on this ranch for around 125 years with me being a part of it for the last 70. One of the fist lessons I learned was not to leave anything plastic or rubber out where a cow could get it. Polyester rope seem to also be a favorite. The cows would strip a car or truck with any exposed rubber stripping. Hell they’ll try and eat old tires if given a chance. Only thing I’ve seen a cow eat that ended up in a vet call was plastic insulted wires and it wasn’t the plastic caused the problem, it was the copper puncturing the intestines. When we drill wells we dig out large area’s called mud pits and line them with polyethylene sheet, we have to put fences around them to keep the cows out. Not only do they step in and punch holes in the sheet they also eat the damn stuff.
I think I read somewhere that it activates and tells the mammary glands it is time for nursing. Most mammals do that.
Less than a year later, I had a reefer van backhaul out of Nestle (I think) in Memphis. Big tubs filled with contaminiated chewing gum and hard candy (when plant machinery breaks down the product is scrapped).
Took it to the same IA feedlot. None of it was wrapped iirc.
I grew up ranching myself, and they truly are as dumb as a cow. lol
This is similar to certain bacteria that live in our oceans and consume oil. Most people are totally unaware that oil seeps into out oceans and seas naturally every single day. There are microbes that feed upon this oil discharge.
Several tears ago when there was an oil rig leak in the Gulf the Leftists went insane. Making all sorts of crazy doom and gloom statements. Days later, when the Leftists Media actually went to the site. There was nearly no evidence of a leak. Their doom and disaster proclamations were nonsense.
They discovered nearly no evidence of the leak. No major oil slicks. No massive fish kills or dead sea birds. The leak was Light Sweet Crude. It was consumed by these microbes that gathered by the TRILLIONS for a feast.
so that;s why the plastic stomach liner broke down after 40 years of eating tripe!
I read about that. :)
Coolest thing I have found was that they also can use enzymes to extract gold and silver from ore. And other metals depending on the type of enzyme.
“What about the cow farts? Deal breaker!”
Yup, we’re gonna need more popcorn.
"What about Mikey? He'll eat anything." You have to be one of us old goats to remember that one. (sorry for the bad pun)
Some of the hamburger and steaks I have had have tasted like plastic....
Save d erf -— fill plastic jugs with cow farts and watch the two ‘problems’ self-destruct
Boy you got that right.
I have watched them eat the paper off from cans..and a lot of other things.
BTW, whitetail deer are nothing but a high speed goat as they can eat about the same.
We had a pet deer when I grew up.
We called it cleanings.
When grain got short at the end of the year, we mixed in sawdust. Not much in nutrition, but is was a filler and stretched out the grist for a while until we go them onto pasture in the spring.
BTW, in Germany during WW2 the made liver wurst out of wood pulp. I think it was liver wurst. The Brits used it to mix in with bread.
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