HICAGO: Following a heatwave that killed thousands of cows in June, top US cattle feeding businesses delivered 1,000-pound carcasses to a landfill in Kansas, where they were flattened by loader machines and mingled with garbage.
A feeding firm claimed that other livestock were buried in unlined graves.Both are not common techniques for body disposal. But because of the extreme heat and humidity, so many cows died that the state government and cattle feeders were forced to take emergency action. Normally, facilities that turn carcasses into pet food and fertiliser products are overloaded.
In Kansas, the third-largest US cattle state, improvements in the meat business have been pushed for as a result of the widespread deaths and accompanying rush to dispose of decomposing remains.In addition to the other issues brought on by increasingly extreme weather due to climate change, Kansas is predicted to have extra high temperatures this summer that might stress and possibly kill livestock.
