Doesn't read like they all died in a blast. Reads like they were all in miking pens, and something blew up which started a massive fire and the cows had no means of escaping the pens. Real tragedy all the way around. If these dairies didn't seem to have them rigged up to milking machines most of the say they could have free ranged the rest and maybe only lost of few hundred.
I also think we need to go very far out of our way to treat our livestock better and give them the fullest live and most reasonable quality of life possible.
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I got a big dairy producer about 12 miles down the road from me. They have a few hundred acres in grass and alfalfa and several BIG barns. Pretty rare to actually see a cow. I do see a semi dragging double tankers of milk twice a day, so I know they are in there. I'm guessing they don't get out much. Big commercial operations ain't like Green Acres, it's industrial. I imagine living in Iowa you know that first hand.
I mean the cows on my place live outside and "free range", but we ain't even close to being big league.
Mark used to work at a beef factory and I remember him telling me they had small operation and they slaughtered some crazy number of cattle daily, maybe 500 or some shite. Like 500 and his concern was considered tiny. We all just go to the grocery and assume milk and meat will be there.
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I would think they also had grail silos full of feed for the cows. Once the initial explosion took place it may have spread to the silos. Grain dust is highly explosive as well.
Wheat has a layer or cloud ignition temp of 220°C which can be easily achieved with a methane explosion. Barley and Corn at 250°C. Not really sure what they feed cows.
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