Texas dairy farm explosion kills 18,000 cows

[Huxter]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65258108
Wow, wow, wow again (Picard thread). Dunno to be sad or glad? There has to be many jokes in there. "Holy Cow Batman!" Certainly, a huge tail-gate party! BYOB! Good luck to the company. That has to be a lot of money gone.

 

[tsmith1315]

That's a big barbecue even by Texas standards.

 

[jsdemar]

"Where's the beef?!"

 

[Grog6]

That's the bummer; beef is already expensive enough.

 

[David Schwantz]

OMG. I am pretty sure that I have delivered there before. In fact, several years ago I took milk replacer there. Very humid that year, it turned to toothpaste in the trailer.

 

[bad_idea]

AIUI, it wasn't the explosion that killed them, it was smoke inhalation or burning to death, neither a pleasant way to go. Horrifying.

 

[Hobie1dog]

can you imagine the insurance claim?

 

[Cape Byron]

The idea of 18,000 cows dying is pretty hideous.

 

[Hobie1dog]

I still can't envision 18K cows all in one place

 

[David Schwantz]

We go to many dairies that have that many head. Milking parlors' where the cattle basically milk themselves. I think the big problem now will be how do you dispose of that many head all at once. You cannot use a dead animal for humans. They will have to be used as animal feed. There are several plants nearby that butcher cattle, but I am going to guess it will overwhelm them with that many all at once.

 

[Hobie1dog]

A chicken farmer told me he lost power to one of his 3 buildings causing all 17,500 chickens to die. They brought in a backhoe and made 50 yard long trenches to bury them all in. They would deliver to him 51K chicks to put in 3 huge buildings.

 

[jsdemar]

The idea of 18,000 cows dying is pretty hideous.

Daily slaughter of cattle in the US is around 125,000.

 

[lakeroadster]

 

[Alan15578]

AIUI, it wasn't the explosion that killed them, it was smoke inhalation or burning to death, neither a pleasant way to go. Horrifying.

So, will there be flash sale on smoked beef?

 

[Cnorm]

What is the conspiracy theory/false flag/foil hat take on this?

 

[Hobie1dog]

What is the conspiracy theory/false flag/foil hat take on this?

could be renegade vegetarian terrorist

 

[David Schwantz]

methane went up due to overloaded manure system.

 

[jsdemar]

What is the conspiracy theory/false flag/foil hat take on this?

 

[Cl(VII)]

What is the conspiracy theory/false flag/foil hat take on this?

 

[Banzai88]

Daily slaughter of cattle in the US is around 125,000.

Most people have zero idea of the industrial scale of production necessary to feed everyone.

Heck, most folks have zero idea where their food even actually comes from.

 

[cwbullet]

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No thanks. It does not
Compare in taste or nutrition to milk. Too much sugar.

 

[BigMacDaddy]

Might encourage adoption of a new diet for cows...

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14062022/cow-seaweed-methane/

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

Heck, most folks have zero idea where their food even actually comes from.

It comes from the store, right?

 

[NateB]

I thought food came from our mountain bike trails

 

[ThirstyBarbarian]

I think the big problem now will be how do you dispose of that many head all at once. .

This is nothing that a quarter million buzzards can’t take care of.

 

[Cl(VII)]

I thought food came from our mountain bike trails
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Let's not lose sight of the important issue. How was the racoon's bike?

 

[Rob Campbell]

This may have been the root cause...

 

[Rob Campbell]

I thought food came from our mountain bike trails
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Critter D'Jour

 

[Pappy]

i can't fathom that many cows in a space small enough to die in a single manure explosion... unless... they were lured there by the farmers who left a trail of high tech tractor components. why? because these cows had evolved due to advanced hormone treatment and genetic tinkering, and were now posing a threat by trying to form a labor union and building their own stuff. the bulls were probably very insistent on having a go at the milking equipment.

 

[Sooner Boomer]

I thought food came from our mountain bike trails
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