To: marktwain
At the site, it is said that the owner was working with a veterinarian, and they likely had an infectious disease. Then it's the Andromeda Strain, because nothing, *nothing* biological kills off an entire herd at the same moment.
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Pulling this trigger takes 2.
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15 posted on
01/15/2011 7:48:41 AM PST by
The Comedian
(Sarah Palin: America's last, best hope.)
To: The Comedian; marktwain
If it was a bad vaccine, and they were all vaccinated at the same time, then it would be possible for the cattle to die overnight or over a period of a day.
27 posted on
01/15/2011 7:55:37 AM PST by
reaganaut
(Ex Mormon, now Christian - "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
To: The Comedian
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Then it's the Andromeda Strain, because nothing, *nothing* biological kills off an entire herd at the same moment. My thought exactly.
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36 posted on
01/15/2011 8:05:27 AM PST by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: The Comedian; All
“Then it’s the Andromeda Strain, because nothing, *nothing* biological kills off an entire herd at the same moment.”
True, but nothing in the article claimed that they all died at the same moment, the same day, or even the same week. It just said that 200 cows were found dead in a field. It is also possible that a large number of them were in very poor condition, and the recent cold wave provided the additional stress to finish them off.
The article did not mention how many live cattle were found in the field with the dead ones.
To: The Comedian
Perhaps some activist poisoned their food to keep the hysteria going. (Like Crop Circle hoaxes.)
48 posted on
01/15/2011 8:13:43 AM PST by
PSYCHO-FREEP
( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2! (Cause I'm a nutcase....))
To: The Comedian
Malnutrition and a cold snap. ... Or a cloaked mothership sta down on top of them and crushed them to death.
74 posted on
01/15/2011 8:36:26 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: The Comedian
Malnutrition and a cold snap. ... Or a cloaked mothership sat down on top of them and crushed them to death.
75 posted on
01/15/2011 8:36:45 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: The Comedian
Seriously, ergot poisoning from feed would be my guess. When feed is delivered to snowbound cattle, they all rush to get in on eating the delivery. Could poison an entire herd that way
86 posted on
01/15/2011 8:39:43 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: The Comedian
One of the dopier things settlers did was bring European cattle to North America. Cattle have problems here, including problems handling severe cold weather. Bison and elk and moose have no such problems and would have sufficed.
I mean, it's POSSIBLE that plasma physics might be involved but without proof of that, I'd assume cold weather was involved.
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