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8/7/2023 8:36:31 PM

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As Heat Rises, Cows 'Are Just Dropping'

'I've never seen anything like it,' Iowa farmer says

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 7, 2023 1:08 PM CDT

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The summer heat has been deadly for hundreds of cows in Iowa and other states in the Midwest. Iowa officials say that on the last day of July, the world's hottest month on record, they received a request to dispose of almost 400 cows that had died from the heat, Reuters reports. Gary Vetter tells the news agency that more than 50 cows died at his neighbors' feedlots in late July despite efforts to protect the herd. "They just start dropping and there was nothing you could really do about it," Vetter says. "I've never seen anything like it."

Cows have also been dying in Kansas, though not on the same scale as last year, when thousands died after temperatures spiked. Bob Noble, president of the Iowa Cattlemen's Association, says two of his cows died in late July, the first heat-related cattle deaths he has had in years. "They just couldn't handle the extra stress of the heat and humidity," he says. Farmers have been trying to counter the heat by erecting shade structures for their animals and spraying them with water, KGAN reports.

Farmers are also turning to high-tech solutions, including apps that forecast how comfortable animals will be in the heat. Chip Redmond, a meteorologist at Kansas State University, helped develop a new tool that gives a seven-day forecast, taking humidity and wind into account as well as temperature, the AP reports. Experts say innovations will help farmers deal with the effects of climate change, but they will face major financial challenges from installing fans and other equipment—and paying for the "insane" amount of electricity they use. (Read more heat wave stories.)

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1413640)	8/7/2023 9:38:09 PM
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Canada: Muslims to stage ‘Million Person March’ to protest Trudeau’s push for homosexual indoctrination in schools AUG 7, 2023 4:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER 6 COMMENTS Kamel El-Cheikh is right that this material should not be forced upon children. Christians and Jews who agree with him on this, however, should be aware that their new alliance will only go so far. It will never lead Muslims to give up the teachings of the Qur’an and Sunnah on the ultimate need to make war against and subjugate both groups. “Canadian Muslims to stage ‘Million Person March’ to protest against Trudeau Liberal’s push for LGBTQ indoctrination in schools,” by David Krayden, Post Millennial, August 1, 2023: Although he has rarely been in the media spotlight as a businessman, El-Cheikh has become a prominent protest organizer in the last months as he has led groups of Muslims and Christians in Ottawa who are opposed to children being told they can change their gender without telling their parents and to pornographic literature used in sex education. "I am optimistic – absolutely. You know, if [there's] one thing that's going to inspire Canadians from coast to coast to go down and protest it's the kids and their innocence and it's families," he said. El-Cheikh says LGBTQ ideology is being preached to children and has shared photographs with The Post Millennial of school pamphlets that specifically target Muslim children. One such form asks the question, "Can I still be Muslim if I am queer?" The literature assures the reader that there is no conflict between Islam and homosexuality, a contention that El-Cheikh called "blasphemy." He said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's insistence that Muslims accept his views on LGBTQ ideology amounts to a "fatwa," or an edict on faith and morals. Even though the material is presented by imans [sic] who have apparently bought into gender ideology, El-Cheikh said the kids rejected his words. "The kids called them out on it and they told them, 'Excuse me sir, you're a liar.' These are 14- year-old kids and they walked out of class anyway." El-Cheikh spoke to a group of protesters on June 13. He says that speech urged Muslims, Christians and people of all faith to band together to protect their children from the state. "You know Canada's built of Christians and Muslims and and all denominations, why not celebrate that?" "We can coexist and I think that's what absolutely these protests are illustrating is that Christians and Muslims and most Jews and of course a lot of common sense Canadians have a lot in common that's it's not what Justin Trudeau is preaching because Justin Trudeau is preaching and I've talked to people in the so-called LGBT community who just say lay off stop defining us absolutely you know let the state get out of this because stop telling me I have to vote Liberal."...