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Cattle Mutilations

Recommend this recent New Yorker article on cattle mutilations:

"...that the cows, found in six locations, had their tongues and part of the flesh of their cheeks precisely excised, with no apparent signs of struggle. “No predators or birds would scavenge the remains for several weeks after death,” the sheriff’s department wrote"

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the-enduring-panic-about-cow-mutilations
Yep. "Enduring panic" is exactly right.
People can't seem to Google. Or, more aptly, they want the drama, not the reality.
 
"If our worst fears are correct, we could virtually lose an entire generation of young people".

'The Cows Are Mad' podcast from BBC Sounds, essential listening for anyone interested in the cattle mutilation phenomenon:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001rrhy/episodes/player

Learnt things I didn't know and there are some startling discoveries regarding waster from rendering plants entering the groundwater of the county where UK BSE originated. These are no online conspiracy theorists but rather scientists and farmers
 
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Here's a Jstor story on 1970 cow mutilations:
https://daily.jstor.org/the-1970s-cow-mutilation-mystery/

When agencies such as the Colorado Bureau of Investigation looked into the cattle mutilations and found no sign of human involvement, some ranchers suspected that this was yet another case of official misconduct. And in fact, the idea of a government conspiracy wasn’t so far-fetched. After all, the Army had accidentally killed more than 4,500 sheep in 1968 while testing nerve agents in Utah—and then refused to acknowledge its responsibility until 1998.
 
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