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Originally posted by straightshooter1:
I just can't imagine that number of cows killed. Not suggesting it didn't happen, rather it is my mind that just can't grasp such a number.

Bob

I drive thru the Texas panhandle several times a year. You can smell the feedlots (I realize this incident was a dairy, but same effect) from miles away. Get out of the car for gas in a town like Dumas, TX and if the wind is coming from the wrong direction, it's awful. A dairy cow poops 100# per day. It takes some engineering to dispose of properly when that many cows are concentrated.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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Zero Hedge has a long list of fires at food processing plants. Counting this one at least 3 more fires since they quit updating the list 10 months ago.

I would like to know if this was an accident or sabotage.

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”

At least 100 fires/explosions (97 on list + this incident + two more articles on Zero Hedge).

Two leading options:

{Less Likely} Common faulty equipment or operating procedures amongst beef plants, pork plants, chicken plants, beef farms, dairy farms, hog farms, poultry farms (3,000,000 chickens in one fire in MN). I realize that commercial farms are high density with metric shit tons of manure to dispose of from a small area, but the list also contains numerous food processing plant fires/explosions.

{More likely} Environazis hate everything about meat from farming practices to processing plants to grocery stores to meat eaters. A normal person just wouldn't eat it if they didn't like something about it (e.g. the high density commercial farms), libtards would try to outlaw it, and then there are the Environazis who would try to destroy with fire and explosions.

I labelled the second one more likely since Zero Hedge has an article about FBI warnings on cyber attacks on food plants .

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
How do you even milk 18,000 cows? Growing up I spent a lot of time on a dairy farm. Granted, it was a family operation, but he stayed plenty busy with 50+. 18,000 is just mind boggling.

A friend of our family sold a dairy farm to a dutch family. They built a barn that had a large round concrete slab that floated on water that rotated. The cow would be led into a stall on the slab, connected to the machines (say at 12:00) by the time the cow got all the way around to the 11:00 position it was done and would be led off and replaced by another cow. It ran 24/7. I don't recall the volume but they had a LOT of cattle, significantly more than my friends family had.

I can only imagine it is something along those lines.

Here’s an interesting article that says you need at least 3,000 dairy cows to make a methane digester profitable. It also says oil companies are helping dairy farms install the in Kansas, as an example, because the oil company, She’ll in this case, gets California pollution credits.

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An article that says South Fork Dairy was at least having methane digesters installed as of 4/13/2022:

“Clean Energy has also started a digester project with South Fork Dairy in Hart County, TX. When complete, the project will produce an anticipated 2.9 million gallons of RNG.“ Link

It says Hart County, but Hart is a small town in Castro County where the dairy farm is.

Nothing to see here. Just part of Biden's plan to reduce greenhouse gases. Move along.

Maybe this was something kind of similar to the 2020 Beirut explosion except with decomposing cow poop? A lot of cows = a lot of poop.

Can you imagine how that area is going to smell in a few days?

@ 1:55.
@ 2:46

That’s an utterly shocking number of cows. (Couldn’t resist). I had no idea dairy farms were that large. Growing up, some friends had ~100 cows and I thought that was a big operation.

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Originally posted by 92fstech:
How do you even milk 18,000 cows? Growing up I spent a lot of time on a dairy farm. Granted, it was a family operation, but he stayed plenty busy with 50+. 18,000 is just mind boggling.

My dad has a buddy that owns more than that and it is all completely automated. The cows are trained to know when the food it put out and they come into the same stall every time. The milkers hook up to the utters automatically and draw all the milk out. It tells you production of every teet among a bunch of other stuff I don't remember.

I just can't imagine an explosion that kills 18,000 cattle. That's an entire hockey/basketball arena packed full of people and cows take up way more room than a person and I doubt they were standing shoulder to shoulder when it happened. That big of an operation and only one person was there to get injured. Sound very sketchy to me.

You should see the pictures of the holding barn the cow were in. It’s gigantic. I’ve never seen anything like it in the farm country I grew up in. It’s like the factory chicken coops except for cows.

I found some pictures posted below. The last one is only 1/4 to 1/5 of the total building the cows were in.

A friend complained today of convenience store charging $7/gallon for milk. Bought the half gallon instead at $4.80.

I wonder if milk price will go up in normal stores with this explosive news.

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Originally posted by NavyAgShooter:
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I'm only speculating that most were killed by the fires and not the actual explosion.
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I feel great sorrow for those cows. Burning to death is a horrible way to die.

Rowdy and Gill Favor are in cow heaven , they've been waiting for this for 20 years

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by NavyAgShooter:
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I'm only speculating that most were killed by the fires and not the actual explosion.
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I feel great sorrow for those cows. Burning to death is a horrible way to die.

I thought about making a Texas sized BBQ comment, but there is really nothing funny about it. Maybe most died from the smoke as I’m guessing that would be better than burned alive.

My immediate thoughts were to the magnitude of the emotional and physical horror those cows experienced...Confusion, followed by terror and sheer panic for Eighteen Thousand Cows! Heartbreaking...

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Originally posted by Pizza Bob:
Nothing to see here. Just part of Biden's plan to reduce greenhouse gases. Move along.

Politics in an apolitical thread

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Originally posted by TRIO:
A friend complained today of convenience store charging $7/gallon for milk. Bought the half gallon instead at $4.80.

I wonder if milk price will go up in normal stores with this explosive news.

According to Bing, a cow can produce an average of 6 to 8 gallons of milk per day. So say 7 times 18,000 = 126,000 gallons of milk per day that won’t get produced. That’s gotta put a dent in some grocery store dairy cases.

Doesn't matter what size the 'dent' prices will go up just because the public expects it.

I'm still trying to figure out how a computer hack caused a major gas pipe line to shut down... the people that run it don't know how to turn a valve or push the manual button to start a pump?

18,000 cows at $3,000 each. You do the math...
Over 100 people without jobs
A multi-million family business out of business and possibly in debt.....

I fell to see the humor............