Ann Barnhadt: I know that video clip going around looks awful, but let me give some context here.
There has been extreme heat and humidity in Western Kansas and cattle have died. This is normal, and 10,000 head total statewide is not a “mass die-off that will cripple the beef supply.” Not even close.
There are roughly six million cattle in Kansas. Of those, over two million are “on feed” in confinement feedlots in the western half of the state.
In the former United States, something like 125,000 head of cattle are slaughtered per day, Monday through Friday, with a reduced kill on Saturday. So, as you can see, 10,000 deads in a heatwave is statistically insignificant.
The cattle shown in the video were not on pasture, they were in a confinement feedlot, as we can see by their size and the reportage says “fat cattle”. That means: in the feedlot approaching slaughter weight. They were not on ranches, grazing. They were in feedlots. Standing on dirt, in fenced pens, eating grain (corn) and drinking water from feed troughs all day every day. These cattle hadn’t seen a ranch, or eaten a blade of grass, in months.
The reported “epicenter” of this heat event was Ulysses, KS. That’s my old stomping grounds, and I would take a spitball guess that within a 100 mile radius of Ulysses, KS there are close to a million cattle on feed in confinement feedlots, maybe more. more
“on feed” means mortality ill animals that are standing in filth, obese, fed antibiotics, corn & soybean and are slaughtered before they die from what’s being done to them. I love beef but I haven’t eaten feed lot beef for decades. If you believe those antibiotics are in that beef don’t make their way into your body, you’re nuts.
When ever I’ve lived I have easily found a local source(ranch) for beef that grass finishes their cattle before they’re slaughtered. By buying usually a minimum of a 1/4 side which ends up being about 150 pounds in your freezer of various cuts, the cost per pound ends up being much less than Wal-Mart feed lot beef anyway.
Ann has put the proper perspective on the story as well. It’s just another way the legacy media is providing cover for Joey to tell us through the roof prices aren’t his fault.
Just more BS to drive up prices, get rid of more American jobs.
Large companies came back to America when Trump lowered corporate taxes. At that time US corporate taxes were 38% here and 11% in Ireland, that is incentive to pack up and move.
More companies = more jobs. The Democrats do not want you to have money, or a job, or a house, or a car, or any major personal possessions.
They don’t want to kill the beef industry, just the American industry.
It would make more corn available to make more shit ethanol.
Namibian beef imports now in the US
https://www.farmprogress.com/trade/namibian-beef-imports-now-us
There is neither incompetence nor accidents with the Left. They know well in advance the destructive effects of every one of their policies. Indeed, they are counting on them.
MMinWA — You’re right. Further, be careful about beef packaging that touts “grass fed”. All cattle are grass fed. Many fewer are grass finished. And in the conversion of the cow to feed lot feed, it loses a key nutrient, vitamin K2, and diminishes other key nutrients as well.
so if you’re going to the extra work of sourcing grass fed beef, make sure you ask if they are also grass finished.
@ MMinWA JUNE 19, 2022 AT 9:20 AM
Perhaps in some, but not all cases. We don’t eat much consumer packaged beef. We eat a lot of deer and elk though.
It really depends on how the finishing operation is set up and what their target market is. I have a friend that has been buying old roping steers and putting them on grain and producing beef that people are driving from out of state to buy. Try to fatten them on grass and you might as well try and fatten them on wheat straw for all the good it is going to do you.
I have another friend that has been supplying prime beef to Whole Foods. The cooperative he is part of finish them in their own feed lots and by the time they ship to Boardman Oregon they have been on silage and grain and are fat, but far from being in any state of distress.
I’m planning a nilgai hunt in November. They are around five to seven hundred pounds and among the best testing meat available anywhere. They are native to India but a few were brought to Texas in the 1920’s and now there are more nilgai in Texas than in India. They are a challenge to hunt and it takes a very powerful caliber weapon to bring one down. There are many huge ranches in Texas that offer free range hunts for nilgai. Organic, great tasting meat that offers a challenging hunt is right up my alley. I’m shopping for a bigger freezer already.
This week more will die, longer &hotter. Need more hormones & spoiled feed.
I heard a radio report on this……There’s a feedlot near Wichita that has been there since the 1860’s and they lost over a thousand cattle. Never happened before……Weird shit….
Like I said earlier, Harris Ranch is in the Central Valley. A huge feed lot. 100 degrees plus damn near every day during the summer. No problems.
Well if it ain’t the vax, must be aliens. Duh
So the form of reporting is nothing more than continued fear mongering? More prepackaged crisis?