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Do a Google image search for "Kansas feedlots". There ain't no shade in Kansas -- especially at the feedlots. Time for a reality check. How many trees do you think are in a prairie? Not many. Feedlot shade? You're dreamin'.

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Do they not have hoses, or Barns or areas under a tarp? Why NOW? This isn't unseasonable weather.

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It is reported that Kansas is in drought right now. IтАЩd bet that under usual operation that theses animals would not be left out in the sun long enough to be affected.

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Take the link. See the Kansas feedlots. See any trees? See any shade? No.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kansas+cattle+feedlot&atb=v314-1&iax=images&ia=images

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So this just like Soccer player deaths - where totally normal occurrences lead to mass deaths...?

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No, I don't think so. I think this is more like The Perfect Storm. Cattle processing (time to slaughter) involves moving through optimal logistics & timing. When that timing gets interrupted and you have fat cattle, fed high fat/high protein food which is hard on the liver, AND they are delayed to go to processing for some reason (destroyed processing plants? . . . or they are simply backed up), AND you have high temperatures, AND you cannot give them cool them down with shade or water, THEN you have dead cows. This combination is not normal - but - shit happens. On purpose? By accident? Who knows? But not that hard to disrupt logistics.

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So it's like the Perfect Storm - of Whistles killing soccer players, is what I hear you saying.

Cattle have ALWAYS spent time in those feed lots. There is water available - and I'd bet you could turn a firehose on to the mist setting - if you were worried about a transient heat wave. This hot spell is NOT a perfect storm, or 100 year event. It's within the normal limits of climatic variability. We don't often hear about stories like this.

A back up at the Slaughterhouse, or an inability to transport the cattle would only add time to their lifespans.

This looks like something OTHER than weather to me. Perhaps we should be doing some autopsies on the cows, before we conclude that there was no foul play.

A feedlot full of dead cows...that sounds to me like a cut-your-Christmas-Tree lot... No reason to let all of that good beef go to waste - if they weren't poisoned. That's a marketing failure.

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They don't give covid vaxxes to cows (yet) so comparing to dying soccer players is wrong.

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I was comparing the similar lines of nonsensical, propagandistic, narrative-protecting bullshit... Not people being killed by forced Human Medical Experimentation Gene Therapy injections, to cows being killed in a feed lot - either by deliberate means like poisoning, or deliberate neglect.

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There's a few other theories about how they died floating around. But regardless I agree that you're right that this is highly unusual and not caused by waiting an extra hour or two to be slaughtered.

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Well I spent my first 20 years on a farm. One cow/steer/cattle looking like that was enough to cause some panic. So I'm going to go with the 'highly unusual'.

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