Texas Explosion Kills 18,000 Dairy Cows

Mike

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This a really sad story, but also a strange one, for me, what size
of explosion would be needed to kill so many large animals?

I know that we hear, that everything in Texas is bigger, but this
is different, you can't get 18,000 cows on to a football field at
the same time, I hope that it was the blast and not the flames
that killed them.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/...arm-fire-dimmitt-texas-what-know/11651207002/

Mike.
 

Castro County is the second-highest milk-producing county in the state and has more than 59,361 cows. According to a United States Department of Agriculture report, the county produced more than 147 million pounds of milk in February.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller called the incident devastating but said he was grateful there were no further injuries to workers or loss of human life. He also called for the findings of the investigation to be made public once it is finished.


“This was the deadliest barn fire for cattle in Texas history and the investigation and cleanup may take some time,” Miller said. “There are lessons to be learned and the impact of this fire may influence the immediate area and the industry itself. Once we know the cause and the facts surrounding this tragedy, we will make sure the public is fully informed — so tragedies like this can be avoided in the future.”

The 18,000 cows killed represent just a fraction of the 625,000 dairy cows in Texas. Including beef cows, there are 13 million in the state, according to the Texas Almanac. Large amounts of cattle have died in Texas before. During Winter Storm Goliath in 2015, 35,000 cattle froze to death.

The state fire marshal’s office is conducting an investigation into the cause of the fire.
 
Some fertilizers are very explosive, Terry McVeigh could have verified that, if he was still alive. I want to wait until the investigation has been completed. I have noticed that here in the U.S., we have lost quite a few different types of food supplies from hogs to processing plants. Maybe some type of illegal covert activity is going on.
 
Not to take away from it, but years ago. In another country

A Dutch veterinarian was fined 600 guilders (about $240) for starting a fire that destroyed a farm near the town of Lichtenvoorde. The vet had been trying to demonstrate to a farmer that his cows were passing too much gas and, to make his point, he used a lighter to set fire to one of the cow’s farts. The cow became, according to newspaper reports, a “four-legged flamethrower,” and ran around frantically, setting hay bales on fire. The flaming cow (which, amazingly, was unharmed) caused more than $80,000 in damage.

https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/18/Strange-Cow-Stories/

(I checked two sources, same result)
 
hearlady said:
Some people believe our food system is under a stealthy attack......?
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Interactive Map Details Destruction of Numerous US Food Manufacturing Plants, Grocery Stores, etc. -- Compares US Incidents to Global Trends | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft
I lean toward believing in conspiracies.
These food processing events sure look suspicious especially considering the sheer number of them.
In that link up there whoever cares to scroll down there's an interactive map showing the events in the past few years WORLD WIDE

So lets say there's 100 events in 2022
And lets be generous and say SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT were honest tragedies due to:
under staffed farms- under budget farms- old and over worked electrical equipment
THAT STILL LEAVES 25 EVENTS on the list where there was no faulty equipment
And if that's true what caused the place to be totally destroyed?
And what are the odds TWENTY FIVE PLANTS would be hit by fire in such a short amount of time?

But to be fair we can claim the list itself might be an internet scam (allegedly)
After all the internet is free and any scammer can create a list and claim something is true
To be fair we can claim this many fires should raise a few flags and the government should investigate AND main stream news would be reporting this and giving us common folks a monthly update.
But as far as I am aware only FOX has reported on the last few incidents.
And we can also assume the government is too understaffed to be able to investigate such a large problem.
There are a lot of unanswered questions here and no easy answers beyond THE PROBABILITY of old equipment.

And yet there are internet rumors from the folks who wear tin foil hats that the elite are behind this
So is there a movement to disrupt the food chain?
Do a handful of billionaires want to starve a few millions of us "just because"?
Personally, i think there IS something going but I haven't got the time to do a deep dive into it.
It just seems fishy to me.
You all will undoubtedly have other opinions.

One more thing
Georgia Guidestones - Wikipedia
In 79 this monument was put up in the middle of nowhere in Georgia
Nobody knows who paid to put it up

Last year it was blown up
Nobody knows who did it
Point is ON THE GUIDESTONES was the suggestion that the best peak number of people for the planet should be 500 million. ( I'm assuming whoever put that on the stones did not mean the majority of us common folks-- that 500 million would be an exclusive club)
Like I said Lots and lots of questions about a multitude of things going on in this world that make no sense.
And very few answers.
That should bother people. Just my opinion;
 
It would have been a horrible death for the cattle, but their lives were so miserable it's almost a mercy killing. The dairy cows spend their entire lives standing in a space so small they can't turn around with machines attached to their udders. No real "life" at all.
 
Every time I read some these stories , and some of these replies, I am reminded of te Denver airport murals.

No, I'm really not a 'tin-hat' kind of guy .... but sure gets my attention.

If you're interested, google it. It's worth your read.
 
I am still wrapping my head around 18000. Back in the day in another life far far away I worked at a feedlot. We had about 5000 cattle. 18000 is a very large amount of animals. And here in arizona there is not enough gold in any pocket to leave these animals in stanchions and hooked all the time to machines. So they were in pens…so why could not some be saved?
 
Della said:
It would have been a horrible death for the cattle, but their lives were so miserable it's almost a mercy killing. The dairy cows spend their entire lives standing in a space so small they can't turn around with machines attached to their udders. No real "life" at all.
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I agree. It's time to outlaw these factory farms.
 
How did they milk 18,000 cows? We would milk over 400 and that took over 3 hours. We did about 200 at a time in the milking parlor. I tried to get the washing job, but usually ended up hooking and unhooking the liner, which is the part that goes over the teat.
 

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