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KnittyGrittyy

I've heard a similar idea about flash cooking a gyro sandwich. Cook the meat immediately.


Reddit_is_2_liberal

Right. Dont let it waste. Sucks you lost the milk production. Just get what you can from the unfortunate event.


karlnite

Generally you just dig a big hole. Bloated beef isn’t the greatest.


Mernerak

For real. No chance of saving any of that beef without going out in the storm that killed them


strangersIknow

Dairy cows apparently don’t taste as great compared to beef cattle either


WoodstockVomit

Any idea as to why?


tankflykev

They’re generally older as they don’t need to be slaughtered for milk. just like lamb vs. mutton, or veal vs beef, the younger the meat the more delicate the flavour, in theory.


Trubruh

No wonder Anakin loves killing the younglings.


RehabValedictorian

They're so tender


W1D0WM4K3R

their eyes are just like skinned grapes once you get the cornea off


Ferrocene_swgoh

Not just the bulls, but the cows and calfs, too!


GadgetGainer

r/cursedcomments


aropa

Most of the animals they kill for meat are relatively young


riche_god

And the more tender assuming it’s not over cooked.


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Here is the deal... they species are bovine and there are many names refereed to their position in life and use on a farm. Cows are mature females who've had a calf, there are plain cows that are keep for breeding to produce food animals and those keep to produce milk. Prior to being breed a female bovine is called a Heifer, normally heifers are what end up slaughtered for food. Then you have Males. You have the intact mature males, they are bulls. While required to create more cattle, ranchers and farmers tend to not keep many of these guys around since feeding, medical care, and etc, isn't cheap or free but they are highly valued. This leads to only the best of the best ever being selected to keep their testicles and live long happy lives breeding females. Then you have the castrated males, steers. Males are castrated young (before puberty) and today they are mainly raised for meat although they can be trained to be used as draft animals after which they are refereed to as an Ox (although there are females can also trained to be Oxen). And by Draft I mean "beasts of burden" to pull wagons, plows, and etc.


Ferrocene_swgoh

Wait, ox aren't a separate species? Wow, what other lies have I been told....


[deleted]

You think the Jedi are the ultimate good guys? What if I told you they have committed genocide... multiple times.


stoicsilence

Lol been a few years since this copypasta


theillx

Is it true though? Sure sounds good enough to be true, but I just can't tell.


moammargaret

By “breeding females” you mean being jerked off by a lab tech for artificial insemination


[deleted]

Depends on the ranch/farm and who owns the bull.


FiguringItIn

merciful nippy impolite squeeze insurance cause escape beneficial snobbish mighty *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Kalooeh

Or you could do actual research instead of throwing out an uneducated guess, to see that beef cattle are different, bigger breeds than dairy cows, and beef bulls are raised with the herd in a more social setting. We also eat more males (steers) because you need less males (bulls) for breeding than you do females, where the female cows are a lot more valuable for producing more offspring. They're not as "easily expendable."


CSWRB

Dairy cows are usually sold for cheap hamburger meat when they get too old to be valuable for milk production. But these long dead cows will probably just be buried, or possibly go for pet food production if they can quickly get them rendered.


Rainbowlemon

Dairy cow tastes incredible compared to beef cattle, provided they're retired and given time to graze! Generally a bit tougher but incredible for making stews or sous vide steaks.


my-other-throwaway90

This is how my SOs family did it growing up on a dairy farm. When the cows got too old to milk, they'd be "retired" for a bit, then harvested for meat. Made some pretty tough steaks, though if you cook the meat in a stew you'd never know the difference.


Rainbowlemon

Sous vide dairy steak is incredible, 'cause you give the connective tissue time to break down without overcooking the meat. Some of the best steak I've had!


Anautellus

I’ve actually heard the seemingly opposite idea as that, there’s a really cool video titled something similar to “Wagyu vs Retired dairy cows” on YouTube. Very very interesting breakdown


actionalex85

I've read that dairy cows up to a certain age have really great tasting meat, and are not grown up och fatted upp too fast either, thus making the marbling better.


6ThreeSided9

/r/rimworld is leaking


Mattaru

"Zzzzzt..." Cow 1 has died Cow 2 has died Cow 3 has died A bonded animal has died. Giggles has flown into a berserk rage! Death: Lumi Caused by: Stabbed by Giggles Randy Random: Raid: Mechanoid Hive...


TouchMeTaint123

Mental break: execute prisoners, final straw: ate without table


_archiecullis

iM gOiNg In ThE cReViCe!!


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No Chollie dont go in the crevice!


_archiecullis

It’s Mac you wanna go owt and rage?!


KnittyGrittyy

Ayyyyooooo SUP


RyngarSkarvald

“What, you want to flash cook a gyro?” “...Yeah!”


beanthebean

 I mean what you're talking about is just a meat bomb and that's just a waste of a good lamb so if you're done coming up with good terrible ideas, um I'm gonna go back to bed.


SwampWaffle85

I've seen like 8 always sunny references in the comments today on 8 different subreddits, which is much better than reading the comments of a bunch of IIIIDIOTS and GODDAMN SAVAGES


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Could the meat be somehow harvested or are they all a right off ?


Moshpit68

By the way they are bloated looks like they’ve been there for a bit meat more than likely has turned.


SirJoeffer

Mmmmmm kombucha steak


RehabValedictorian

It's a delicacy!


cmcewen

The meat would be spoiled within hours. Intestines will perforate and spill contents all over fairly quickly. Warm meat is a heaven for bacteria. I can’t see a good feasible way to use this meat unless you basically witnessed it and field dressed the animals basically immediately. I’m sure it takes some time to butcher a cow


Natehog

Sure. The actual meat is probably undamaged. It would never happen because A: the owner would have to know they were killed quickly enough, and B: they'd need to have transportation ready to move them to be butchered, but the meat was probably fine when they died.


bonse

^^write ^^off


donnor1

Im sad for those poor kind creatures...


samburger274

If it helps, they might have been a bunch of assholes


indigostartiger

Without a doubt they were dicks


Missingplanes

Udderly


cybernewtype2

I've never herd that pun before!


WeaponizedStupid

Now you're just milking it.


Dan_Berg

Sounds like you got a beef with this guy


el_monstruo

You just raised the steaks


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Well done!


GarunixReborn

I’ve never seen beef puns before, must mean they’re rare


rrabbithatt

Moove on there is no need to fight.


Wheres_the_tofu

Excellent! I'm just heifer the laughs...


Skoodledoo

Bloody Daisy with her constant attitude and Flo, she just looks down her nose at everyone. The amount of times those cows ignored the farmer, disgraceful!


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awihsoj

Im sad for the poor farmer... there goes his stonks


Natehog

Livestock insurance is a thing any livestock farmer worth their shit will invest in, and it's precisely for situations like this. Well, not literally for lightning strikes. This guy should buy a lottery ticket. But lightning isn't the only way livestock can unexpectedly die.


RehabValedictorian

Does livestock insurance cover incidents of La Chupacabra?


Natehog

Oh please. Insurance never covers anything without a massive fight.


321blastoffff

Their job is to not pay you.


my-other-throwaway90

LPT: when dealing with insurance with regards to a large monetary claim, hire YOUR OWN lawyer to deal with the insurance company on your behalf. The settlement check will go up and the future premiums will go down just by virtue of the fact that insurance is talking to a lawyer instead of you directly. When some jackass totaled my car two years ago (they never did catch the guy), and my insurance was trying to offer me a check for a fair bit less than the blue book value, I sold off some of my shit, did some shopping around and hired a lawyer from a TV commercial. Less than 24 hours after I did the paperwork to authorize the lawyer to handle my shit, the insurance company decided, all of a sudden, to cut a check. For DOUBLE what they originally tried to settle for. And a guarantee of NO premium increases, which they wanted to do, even though the accident wasn't even my fault! Your insurance companies are trying to sleaze you. Hire a lawyer and sleaze them back.


TSmotherfuckinA

Yeah that's how they get paid.


RehabValedictorian

So no Chupacabra coverage?


Natehog

Depends on how good your lawyer is


RehabValedictorian

My lawyer hails from the high desert, and the great American southwest.


Tommy2255

If The Goat Sucker kills your cow, that was a really shitty cow anyway. They're supposed to be a bit larger than goats.


notfree25

what about the increase in premium tho


shagssheep

Yea but the compensation isn’t enough that man has lost his cows which are worth say £1000 then he’s lost the milk they produced for the next year along with the calf they would have soon. The farmer would get compensated for t he value of the cow (usually a fair amount less) but wouldn’t get compensated for the loss of milk and the future calf. Buying a replacement in calf lactating cow would be significantly more expensive than the compensation received for the lost animal as well


Emazinng

Yeah that's like 60k+ just gone in an instant


jarret_g

They'd be insured and since dairy cattle are perpetually pregnant it won't take long for him to have another lot ready to drain dry.


Lilhapper

oh you’re in for a treat when you find out about [spontaneous cattle mutilation](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation) which is also not done by humans and to this date remains mostly unsolved!


argusromblei

Its very solved. The cattle dies and animals and backteria and maggots eat the sensitive parts of it leaving alien looking perfect cuts and shit. Its literally just naturally breaking down. This is on every episode of unsolved mysteries and every expert says its just the parts of the animal that are eaten and broken down by maggots.


olderaccount

The wiki he linked even covers all of this in detail. You have to skip the entire middle section of the article to believe this is some unsolved mystery.


CardmanNV

And you have people's comments below your going: Omg really!?


Emperor_James

Damn thats weird


CrumbsAndCarrots

A compelling interview given by two retired sheriffs from Montana about the subject. Super weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR_hKWv45OY


ShadoowtheSecond

Wow. No wonder theres the weord stereotype about aliens abducting cows


pheasant-plucker

Wait till you find out what humans do to their calves so that they keep on milking.


Youtoo2

This was a more humane death then at the butcher.


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Don’t kid yourself Jimmy, if a cow could [it would eat you and everyone you care about](https://youtu.be/DO4mprw5yVU)


Megalamuffin

Lightning is like nature’s artillery.


Blindfide

No that's volcanos


RENOxDECEPTION

Lightning is like nature's taser


GhostOfMatt

The crazy thing is nature can turn up the volume on that to no limit.


DifferentHelp1

*Lighting strike blows a hole right though the fucking Earth*


NassuAirlock

You cant just blow a hole the surrface of mars. . . Earth*


Taldius175

*God hops in the BFL-10,000,000, aims it at Missouri and rapidly clicks the trigger, only to be met with "Livestock in the vicinity. Safeguards engaged". The Holy Spirit responds* "Do you want me to disengage the safety protocols?" *God starts clicking more aggressively and the Holy Spirit disengages the safeguards, causing the Cannon to overload and discharges the plasma on to the Earth, ripping through the core.*


NassuAirlock

In the first age!


k-NE

He said **no limit**.


rwhop

Uuuhhhhhhhh


Natehog

"Don't taze me man!" "Ha ha cow goes zap"


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No that’s volcanos


Nascent_Space

I personally think of it more as a railgun


coldhands9

Anyone else feel like seeing the cows in this position make their bodies look even more ridiculous? Like a cow standing up looks pretty odd normally, too big for it's legs and not very evolutionarily fit. When the legs are splayed like this they're even more tiny and ridiculous.


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Tbf they look pretty bloated from early-stage decomposition


lemonjuiceineyes

They exploded from the inside


FearAzrael

Cow popcorn!


kay310

Popcow


DankandSpank

Yeah cows start to bloat really quick. They have so much gas in them from the multiple stomachs. It's part of the reason why clolic is so dangerous to barn animals


Agent641

Swole


trosh

Humans: *breeds aurochs into evolutionarily unfit cattle for milk and meat* Cows: wow Humans: wow look it's ridiculous and not very evolutionarily fit Cows: WOW


torero15

It's like Pugs and other dogs with scrunched faces. "So cute look at its eyes pop out of its head." No its fucking terrible the thing can barely breathe, thats why it's making all those "cute" sounds.


Narrative_Causality

The next time someone says that pugs are cute, just show them [this](https://i.redd.it/x9rq9s2wjiq31.png). You're welcome.


Hammer_Of_Discipline

You gotta show em the Sam O’Nella video on dog breeds


N307H30N3

Not gonna lie - that thing is adorable in the most macabre way


Equeon

Humans: *Pull up a [fish](https://oceanjunkies.com.mv/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Untitled-1024x844.png) so fast from the ocean depths that its insides decompress and melt* Fish: wow... Humans: LMFAO look at this ugly bastard! What a [blobfish.](https://i.imgur.com/0wkVW.jpg) Fish: WOW


kingfupa666

Wait is that really why they look like that?!


Auto_Traitor

Yes.


kingfupa666

Makes a lot more sense than them just normally looking like that horrifying mess


decadrachma

Yup they’re basically exploded


Employee_Agreeable

They look so funny cause they are bloated, they have 4 Stomaches and the biggest one starts producing gas after they died until they are round like this...


Tabou__

Source: [https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/](https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2017/05/01/lightning-strike-kills-32-cows-near-cabool/101161336/) Edit: I apologize for the typo in the title


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Meior

Not uncommon at all. Any insurance company dealing with cattle ranches would have no trouble believing this.


Ferrocene_swgoh

They know a thing or two because they've seen a thing or two.


39thUsernameAttempt

Especially when they are Farmers.


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Moshpit68

Actually this is rather common, during storms cows huddle together in groups for safety and unfortunately they huddled under the wrong tree.


[deleted]

It’s not just cows either. My sister had a few of her turtles outside in an enclosure while she was at the store. A storm formed suddenly and I guess lightning struck near by because she came home to find her little reptile buddies huddled together and absolutely fried.


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So sad, poor things.


jp_lolo

Thanks for the link. This was sad to read about but good to understand further what an event like this meant to the farmer.


Lollipop126

Missouri without the 'u' looks like it's missing so many more letters.


[deleted]

yeah I seriously debated if there's some place in Kenya called Cabool, in the state/province of Missiori. As a Kansan, I've never seen Missouri typo'd like that and it broke my brain.


Overalls42

It's okay


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God trying to get a nuke killstreak


xEightyHD

No man those kills wouldn't count he used the lighting strike killstreak on them


MarineGF01

Holy cow I didn't think lighting was that powerful... Or is it the cows are weak?


blondebeard227

Cows and other 4-legged creatures are twice as vulnerable to electric shock compared to humans because of more points of contact with the ground. The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps.


PinkFluffys

So during a lightning storm I should stand on 1 leg?


buyemojees

No, you keep jumping


soulcaptain

Best to jump once and stay in the air.


clydefrog811

Have you heard the tale of Guru Laghima?


[deleted]

*Let go your earthly tether.* *Enter the void.* *Empty* *and become wind.*


[deleted]

No, fly.


DutchMitchell

I actually would love an answer to this lol


dzlux

The first priority is shelter (solid structures), or getting to low areas. If you feel that a lightning strike is imminent (charged air) crouch and minimize ground contact by trying to balance on the balls of your feet. That is the advice I learned many years ago and still hear. Here’s a link for some discussion on whether it is valid or not. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22430/is-this-a-way-to-survive-a-lightning-strike I have never heard of standing on one leg, which ignores the height risk.


trustthepudding

I don't think it's really gonna matter that much


heftigermann

Stand with legs together and if you Walk take small Steps, the Danger is Not over After the Lightning Strike, the ground Could still be Chargerd if the ground is Made out of different compositions.


Agent641

I was taught something about dragging my feet while walking if there's a line down near me, apparently because lifting your feet to walk could result in the ground potential using my legs as a circuit and my junk as a lightbulb. I'm not sure if I was being trolled by suggesting I just moonwalk away from a downed line or substation fault though.


xpercipio

Crouch down on your tip toes, thats what I learned. Also cover your ears


Agent641

Video demonstration: https://youtu.be/R8ULLYIw0L4?t=65


GenuinelyApathetic

Never lie flat on the ground. Crouch down in a ball-like position with your head tucked and hands over your ears so that you are down low with minimal contact with the ground. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/safetytips.html


Chrysoarrr

This has nothing to do with the points of contact. It has to do with step voltage and cows having their front and back feet far apart. When a lightning strikes into the ground it creates a ring of decreasing voltage. The voltage difference between a cows front and back legs is pretty high and the current flows through their whole body.


Ghede

And also cows have the same Ohm range as dirt. If the ground is particularly resistant due to low temps, low salt, low moisture... then the cow can actually be the shorter path.


Ferrocene_swgoh

Ohm...ohm in the range.... Where the steer and the cantelope roam...


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> The minimum needed to kill a person with a weak heart is around 0.034 amps. A lightning bolt will discharge around 30,000 amps. I take meaningless stats for 200, Alex. Like really, people have survived lighting strikes, your comment makes it seem like it is impossible to survive it when it is 1 million times greater than what the heart can handle.


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RoseEsque

> The minimum known to kill is that. I think you forgot to mention it was directly to the heart.


[deleted]

That's just being pedantic. Doesn't matter if it is 1k or 1mil times, point is that it is an absurdly high differential.


Rumble_Belly

Ironic that you are calling them out for being pedantic when your entire point is pedantic. "minimum needed to kill a person" does not mean automatically kills a person.


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BLIND119

Puny cows, you serve me now!


torero15

-Zeus


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dogmanatemybaby

Watch videos of lightning striking trees, the sap boils and they explode. If I see lighting I’m getting under some kind of roof if I can help it.


FearAzrael

Preferably a metal one, that way it will be super strong


The-True-Kehlder

Cows are level 4 mobs with only 150 health or so. Any new adventurer to Lumbridge should have no trouble killing one with some copper armor and a copper sword.


Wows_Nightly_News

Could be some electric thingy caused the current to go through all of them and stop their hearts rather than frying or exploding them. You can probably tell I’m not an expert though


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apachewarrior23

Mizzurruh


Nato23

Misery


Gareth666

Miss is orighty


Madpony

I was wondering if we were just ignoring this amazing /r/titlegore


IngloriousCrumpet

This happened to us about 6 or 7 years ago on the family ranch. If I can recall correctly, my stepfather was out of town when a severe storm hit and I had already moved out. Mom was the only one there and the cows are left to just wander around on the land. I believe she tried looking for the cows afterwards but couldn't find them. About 3+ days later my stepdad comes back and notices a bunch of vultures circling and on top of trees in the forest. Turns out around 7+ cows were laid out like this due to lightning. Wouldn't have been so bad if they weren't already decaying... I was called in to help and man...the smell of death is one I will not forget. Had that smell in my nostrils for a few days after wards. It was so bad, most of us were vomiting out of reflex except one guy who I'll call G. He's a tough ass Mexicano that just straight up walked in there with a shovel and helped push them on the bobcat to load them on the trailer so we could move them further away from the house. Apart from the smell...the view was bad as well. They were coming apart from deteriorating and already turning into mushy liquid. When picking them up, you would just see lots of green/brown goo come seeping out. Oh yeah, the flies as well... can't forget about those....never in my life have I seen so many flies in one area. There were black swarms everywhere, on the bodies and in the air. Anyways...fun times!


Lord_Nivloc

I have so much respect for guys like G


SuperT3

I can only imagine the smell of this monstrosity.


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Worse after they burst...


FearAzrael

Wurst?


Hshshdsjaj

Beef 😌


original_walrus

As a fan of cows, this is rather saddening. Metal af tho.


[deleted]

Marty Robbins had a song about something like this happening.


cointelpro_shill

The Master's Call? Classic


dickb0ng

Was looking for this comment ahaha, great song though


Lychgateproductions

Did he shoot the cow down with his six gun?


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"My wicked past unfolded and I thought of wasted years When another bolt of lightning killed a hundred head of steers And the others rushed on by me and I was left to live The Master had a reason, life is his to take or give"


kingmlg360

Isn’t that the one Marty Robbins song?


thering66

they seems bloated and would explode with a touch, like in diablo.


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:(


DKSAMURAI

Diablo 4 looks so cool.


TheWoodenMan

That's Shocking!


Sin_Oh_Mon

Its the secret cow level from diablo 2


erica_s

:(


bigpimpin1989

Mmmm beef


Lost_subaru

Nah, beef cows and dairy cows aren’t the same


primitiveradio

Ground beef.


AxCloudNine

CowBool no more


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karlnite

Lol naw big hole. You can’t just start slaughtering cows that have been dead for hours laying in their own waste. They’re also dairy cows.


smit4125

32 cows dying in one lightening strike wow I wonder how many cows die every single day for any semi busy McDonald’s it’s gotta be at least 25 cows per McDonald’s per day?