Livestock That Nature Has Treated Unfairly
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That's Why Pigs End Up Deep Underwater. Never Save Farm Animals and Here's Why
Why American Farmers Never Save Animals from Natural Disasters
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If I ever had to abandon my animals, I'd open the gate and make sure they at least had a fighting chance, I wouldn't leave them locked in a barn
Because you are a decent human being not driven by greed and profit
Exactly. I could never live with myself, I love my critters.
Yeah. Hundreds if not thousands of life stock let loose in a city, what could go wrong?
@@silsahchne7236 free food?
@@silsahchne7236 well if you consider that most farms are in the country side, and if you also consider the situation of a flood, I would like to think you would do the same.
A few years ago someone I know had to leave their cat behind in a spreading fire. They stayed for hours longer than they should have to look for her but no one could find her… she was so scared she had broken out of the house and ran off into the forest next to the house. Thankfully she survived and was found unharmed after they returned home. At some point she ran back into the house and hid under a bed
Growing up on a farm, our livestock ranked first. As a kid we never had a single dog or cat in the house. But, if a hog gave birth in a bad storm, the babies were brought into our basement until the storm passed. We've had calves and a couple dozen piglets in our basement at the same time. During the blizzard of 78-79, we had a hard time. Literally shoveling paths for cattle to get into barns and outbuildings. We didn't have a tractor that could handle snow and ice that deep. Any given area had 4' of snow, but most fields were over 6' deep. We lost several animals. Which was devastating to a small family farm.
The worst part about those coastal floods is that there are pools full of farm animal waste, and when you have those floods that 'stuff' overflows and can get into groundwater.
Perhaps building those giant stables on elevated ground will help during floodings. In my country we usually have the fields on lower grounds but the farm and stables on elevated ground since we have a high risk of flooding aswell.
Not when they will get paid by insurance they are not that concerned with the animals welfare that much.
THANK YOU! I made that same exact point & suggestion in my comment just now. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking laterally on solutions like this that are totally viable and should be a legal requirement for any property where animals are kept. As you state, in your country the farm & stables are on elevated ground because of the known flood risk. Whether that's required by law, or just the voluntary actions of intelligent, ETHICAL people exercising common sense, isn't clear from your comment, but it doesn't really matter.... If I presume that the policy you described represents the circumstances at the vast majority if not ALL of the properties where animals are kept in your country, then they should be held up as examples to Australia & Australians of how it's done when it's done better than here, and ideally, we'd be collectively inspired, or legally required, to emulate your country's superior behaviour and more enlightened attitude & perspective. I'm not religious, but there's only ONE thing I remember from my fleeting contact with mainstream religion in "Sunday School" as a young kid.... There was ONE bible quote that stuck with me, and went something along these lines,..... "Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you have done it to one of the least of these, My brothers, you have done it to Me ..." Which I interpret to mean, he takes the way people treat other creatures personally, and subsequently wants them to regard it as a reflection on how he perceives they are treating him. I lasted three weeks at Sunday School before I was asked not to attend any more! 🙄🤣 I didn't misbehave, was always polite & respectful, and wasn't deliberately disruptive or rude. But, the Sunday School teacher made a lot of unsupported fantastic assertions that seemed to contradict reality, and my crime was to, "Ask too many questions." I figured that was what a forum for learning & education was for. Apparently not. I realised from the rest of the catatonic kids around me who appeared to be lobotomised, it was a place to sit silent & impassive, to receive indoctrination & programming. NOT take a healthy, enthusiastic part in a truly educational process. I did NOT miss being in there.
@@TomFlaTTop_BMW First, Its common sense because my country has been around for hundreds of years, so before insurance was even a thing. Losing your livestock meant bankruptcy. Second, we care about our animals beyond it being a product or unit, even if they are meant for consumption. Third its just plain wasteful, having all those animals lost while it can be easily prevented. Being wasteful is really frowned upon in my culture. I really got lost in the second part of your reply about sunday school, what are you trying to say with that?
@@origami83 Hey. I was just makin' a point that the only thing that stuck with me from my short time attending Sunday School as a kid before I was excluded was that Bible quote about being kind to all creatures. The rest was forgettable. I was also clarifying that I wasn't excluded for being Bart Simpson. I was polite, but was told I asked too many questions. Which may have exposed some holes in their narrative or might spread doubt to the other kids?.....I don't know. They just said you ask too many questions. Which I thought some might find curious. I did. Amen.
@@TomFlaTTop_BMW Ah alright, it was late and it flew over my head! I switched school once when i was a kid and the new school tried to indoctrinate me with their religion, but it only made me a devout atheist! Asking question is only good if you follow the narrative, poking holes in it is not appreciated.
You know.. out of all the big youtubers I am subbed to, you’re the only one who changes the title and thumbnail. I like it.
Then you’re watching the wrong channels. Out of the hundreds I sub to only a couple are lazy like that. & I rarely watch them bc they are lazy & aren’t very good at all. You’re right.. the best ones are the ones that put the work in. I’m still finding great channels after decades on KZhead.
A lot of times we can not relocate due to chance of spreading disease. Poultry and hogs are the worst.
Especially when they get access to water, and the trouble is live animals will need the same scarce water to keep people alive too.
Can't watch without making a coffee first , something triggers the urge to want coffee
Moses and Noah did it GOT DAMMIT.
They can keep automated shelters with emergency wiring, to open the sheds and pens automatically during such emergencies for the animals and birds to escape
💯% agreed. Animals do matter.
1:24 Duck are laughing at the other farm animals.
I'm building a homestead. We had a tornado hit earlier this year. It was not fun trying to gather up all of my animals after the tornado toppled some trees around my fencing. Most of my animals normally have lots of space, but I had to stick my goats and livestock guardian dogs in my chicken coop. I had to keep my chickens in the brooder in my house way longer than when they normally would have been moved outside. I had to put my turkeys in a small garden shed, and my pigs stayed in the yard, but there was a risk they would roam into my neighbor's cow pasture since a big tree lifted the fence on that side. Luckily, the part of the fence that would have completely freed them had a tree fall on it. Instead of lifting it, pigs are not good climbers, unlike my other animals. After that experience, I can understand why it is unrealistic to expect farmers to take all of their animals with them. I'm in Florida, and the weather is warm, so I don't have a barn. Most of my animals have a 3-sided shelter to protect them from the elements. I'm not in a flood zone. Eventually, I'd like to get a barn, but right now, it's a bit out of budget, and the tornado came at 6 am with no warning. Even if I had a barn, after seeing what happened to my neighbor's shed, I'm not sure securing them in a barn for protection from the strong winds would guarantee their safety. Luckily, no one got hurt, but one of my pigs was clearly traumatized because the next few weeks, every time the wind blew slightly hard, she'd run off screaming and hide. Fortunately, she seems to have recovered from that, but it took a while. As mentioned in the video, pigs are quick to go feral and have become a big issue in some places, so letting them loose isn't a good idea. I can tell you from experience with my tame farm pigs they can be quite destructive when they want to be. They dig big ruts and one of my bit through pvc plumbing because we didn't have power, so I couldn't use the well to give them as much water as their used to. I gave them rain barrel water, but they're used to having more water to wallow in. They're very intelligent and also better swimmers than most people realize. Imagine a farmer releasing hundreds of pigs into an area instead of locking them up. Not only could they tear up people's property, but they can also be quite dangerous, and a scared, cornered pig is much more likely to be a threat. They have jaws strong enough to bite through a human femur. The best thing a farmer can do is lock them up and hope for the best. I do think that farms in flood zones should build their barns and areas they plan on locking up animals in should be elevated, though. That would provide extra protection against flooding.
As bad as it is, it's best for poultry and swineto die in place, rather than run amock and be a disease hazard!! The range animals, like horses, cattle and even sheep, can mostly swim to safety.
Exactly what i was thinking - but this (video) was targeted at the "muggles"
This one stem's/germinates the thought, It's funny how the non animal eaters constantly complain how animals are badly treated and yet don't see our governments doing the same to us. It's a thought that branches out for too long to mention.
Of course they see the government's misdeeds. That makes absolutely zero sense. If you ddn't eat meat, you're a government shill? Give me a freaking break.
When was the last time our government closed you into a building full of other people and made you drown in filthy water with no way out? Just curious.
The farmers have a lot more involved with the health of their snimals than any internet genius.
Farm animals are not disposal they are someone's livelihood and someone's food
It enrages me when I hear that any animal is disposable! They experience the same feelings, as we do such as fear and sadness, along with happiness and delight.
You mean profit !
Silly, we eat them. What says disposable more than something that is eaten?
@@draighodge6039 I don’t eat animals, I just don’t feel like we need to eat things that have feelings and emotions. Although yes, that is a valid point lol
@taurusmoonintuitivelightwo5350 until we resolve the problem of essential amino acids, we are stuck with this system. You may feel anything, but it doesn't change our biology. Volume of waste is another unrecognized obstacle. Converting the population to a diet of vegetables means accommodation of radicaly more sewage and accept a quintupling of farm land. Feelings won't change that.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to build flood barrier in places where it gets flooded often ? 🤔
Yes and no. No because I'm pretty sure the feds will reimburse the losses. Yes because it would stop the loss of as many animals.
@@blakethegreatone2058 didn't he say they pay 75% 🤔 ? 25% of so many animals are still a lot of money
Disposable or not, if the farmer wants to die trying to save his lively hood that's his business. Cops should Stay out of it.
And the secret magic word for today kids is I N S U R A N C E !
Thank-you!
Not to mention the amount of waste from the animals that gets into the water. The pollution that causes after the flood is really bad.
Fantastic video, throws a really different light on the shittiness of animal farming.
The answer is: FEMA will reimburse these farmers for their losses. These aren't pets with sentimental value, they are meat
Exactly, why bother putting any effort into saving something if the taxpayers will pick up the tab.
Yeah and thats what PETA is for. Lol
This is like Giving Food to a poor person vs Giving a livelihood to that same person so he/she will earn and live themselves. Just because one way failed that doesn't mean we should give up altogether, we just need to find a better way.
Worthwhile content. Liked and shared.
we are just in such a bad situation as a population this industrialized production of meat is so stupid, this is just another part of the whole problem
They only exist because people are buying it.
We were affected by the 2021 flood, we were upstream from the farmlands in your video. We are still homeless....the flood ruined our house. It's been an absolute struggle since, being old and on disability just to survive since then
Horrible reality 😔
Gosh, it's almost like we should have built our already extremely problematic factory farming operations on known recurring flood plains 🤔
Lobster fishermen actually use pighide as bait.
On industrial farms the farmer doesn't own the animals, they are just caretakers. Private farms try to save animals because of loss.
The hurricane disaster stuff is also the main reason for the iguana and python issue in Florida...
Also the Nutria Rats in Louisiana, South Arkansas, and East,South East Texas.
😂😂😂 I not going to lie I first thought you were not taking things seriously but you are actually funny as hell
Damn I have viewed one of your videos in over 1 and a half years , I guess welcome back to my for you page
Same here,it's about the same amount of time for me,I've been distracted elsewhere and this popped up !
Very sad
In short ,they are The Expendables!😂😂😂
oh how I hate insurance companies
Saving thousands of animals is not realistic.
Until you crash your car
@@Fishin-Mission duh! lol obviously there's relevancy in car insurance. but home owners, renters, life insurance, medical. its all trash. not to mention EVERY type of insurance is fraught with fraud and fraudsters.
@@blakethegreatone2058 good job! you watched the same video I did!
@@blakethegreatone2058 Preventing it is realistic. Elevate the buildings so during a flood they stay above water or at least wont be entirely submerged. In my country we have alot of farms in floodplains and those are builds on man made elevations in case of a flood.
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pig farming is only going to make the feral pig problem worse especially when there is hard to predict extreme weathers
OMG !! The things we Dont Think About when it comes to natural disasters..
Lived in Jacksonville NC during that hurricane. Went to VA for it. It was bad when we got back. Took 2 hrs to live. Took 4 almost 5 to get home
Why don’t the farmers build up, if you had another level on top of the shed’s exactly as the one on the bottom, when the water starts to rise they could have ramps to move them up out of the level out of the reach of the water, leave food and when the water subsides they can go and move them back down ❤️🏴
If the operation is large enough build up a plateau above the high water so the animals can find ground.
Drought is responsible for far more lost crops and livestock than flooding. According to FAO stie, 34% of those losses are due to drought, while flooding accounts of for 19% of those losses. But that is for both crops and livestock, so I am not sure what percent is just livestock. I did not see that stat alone.
Why don't they just build the pens higher? We can reclaim land from the sea and build skyscrapers on them, why would it be hard to make a hill on land?
No but they don't have to keep the doors latched where they can't even escape, no excuses for that cruelty
doyou want hogs trashing their way thru your back yard???
Very educational! They should make the buildings with a roof that could give themselves a fighting chance? Not lock them in a shed to drown!
If it’s so bad for animals to be stranded in the water physically I wonder how stressful a situation like that is on humans…. Everlasting trauma…
Humans already get all the attention. Have some compassion.
So build the holding pens up higher ...much higher
And just another reason insurance rates are so high.
Quit building in flood zones.
I wouldn’t be mad if there were wild cows walking through my woods. 🥩😅
This was one of the saddest vids I've seen on KZhead. If able, I'd have to try to save them. It was a very informative vid, though!
The editor for this channel is amazing at photoshop 🔥🔥🔥
Judging by the pictures, it looks like they could have at least put some of the animals on the rooftops.
It's 'live stock.' do you take your entire house including refrigerators, large expensive items, etc too? It's called evacuation for a reason.
Tell that to Vegans 🌱
We build fences and damms around those places so the water is mostlikely not able to penetrate If u leave ur animals out there to die u are a terrible human beeing
@@korthosen949 what part of "emergency evacuation" did you not understand?
@@mdedes9891 What part of: We build walls and damms did u not understand? Before such things hit, u have atleast weeks to prepare and get read for atleast 4-8 Meters of raising waters if u can´t handle such u shouldn´t be allowed to farm there
@@korthosen949 Weeks to prepare? That does not call for emergency evacuations, and would give enough toime to move everything. A few weeks is also not enough time to totally secure thousands of acres against flooding.
i am not a vegan by any means, but these animals are gifts to us from God. If you can't manage to move all of your animals in the event of a flood, you were never meant to have that many animals.
Even if gods existed they don't give a sod about what goes on on Planet Earth.
How high is the water mamma, she said it's 3 feet high and rising
Escaped animals stand a FAR betrer chance than being locked up. A better chance than not catching COVID with a certain shot
Some drowning animals are more equal than other drowning animals
Can they make those buildings water proof up to 5 or 6 feet water on the outside dry on the inside
Opa meu amigo like sempre um abraço 👍👍🏿🙏🙏🇧🇷
Never mentioned how global climate change is the true harm to everyone. Why? Piglets are not all male. Some if the beef cattle shown were dairy cattle. I have a small farm. 40 cows, 15 pigs, 40 chickens, 3 dogs & 3 cats. I have one trailer that can carry 6 cows max. If I carry the six cows, I will not be able to carry much food for them. The biggest problem in my area is flash floods the come and go very quickly. Most of the problems in this video are coastal areas and factory farms - I am neither.
biggest problem would be pigs when they escape, they go feral quite quick, when they turn feral they are quite destructive when natural disaster is over
Furrows-&-Swales is an opposite way of topologically-planning a farm-land; they are lengths of steeply raised areas and steeply declined areas throughout a land-plan: when a flood-occurs, raised-areas serve necessity, & when drought occurs, declivities shade access deeper ground-water for greenery to thrive on: comparatively, flat land wastes-money and tempts-fate to flood, drought, wind, fire, famine, blight, & desertification.
That may or not be true. I can see it with chickens. Farmers do for the most part care for their animals. Fire is another problem but often strikes so fast people can't get the animals to safety.
Most animals swim pretty well. At least open the gates.
The flood in bc, farmers are doing what they could to get their animals to safety. Locals with boats were lending a hand, until Gov't stepped in and was preventing it!
If you build your barns on high ground, like I did, it's not a problem. Cows can't go to pasture until the water goes down, but they have hay, grain and get milked. High producing cows that suddenly stop being milked die. It's a matter of being prepared. Even in flat lands, responsible farmers bring in dirt and build up an area before putting up an animal barn.
Even with chickens you can't simply load them on a truck and take them somewhere else, not with that many chickens. You have to maintain a suitable environment for them in the transportation and then the location you take them to, but moving 30,000 chickens to a new location means that new location now gets the waste of 30,000 chickens and most places can't deal with it. These types of operations are also highly automated because it's impossible for a person to manually take care of 30,000 chickens. So even though chickens are small, no one is saving multiple houses of chickens. No one, well, unless they have another farm close by that has the empty space for the chickens, which is INCREDIBLY unlikely. On the other hand if you have up to a few hundred chickens you can probably save them IF you have a place to take them to that isn't far away but out of the path of that storm. GOATS will die if they're out in the rain. They're overly sensitive to different environmental conditions which seems strange considering wild goats live in all kinds of conditions, but they also typically have protection from rain.
At the very least, open cage and stall doors. To keep them in cages to suffer certain death is the ultimate betrayal. I realize you might not want them to get out into the wild, but you have an obligation to decency and loyalty to your animals.
Oh, those poor cows having swum for miles to safety, bravely rescuing themselves...only to be recaptured into slavery to be tortured and slaughtered!🥺
Maybe some farmers view their animals solely as a commodity and don't want anyone to lay hands on them. The cruelty of people though
Hooray for Sacramento county.
You could semi open it so they can escape when the water gets high enough but not before hand. Chances are, most of them will come back for food and you can set one way gates with food. more than one gate and food behind three of them and a gate to the farm house inside will minimize the chance of animals holding the gates open. One way gate? How? Need a normal gate, some nuts and bolts, and maybe a drill and a stop. Remove the gate, Turn it 90 degrees Maybe flip it 180 degress if the side you need the fasteners in is on the top. Maybe drill some hole on the top of the gate post and the gate. Then so its not a two way door, something heavy and raised on the no exit side.
I can’t believe you said that you could get steak out of a pig 😂
Most farmers barely make a season. They are not rich by any means, most are one step ahead of foreclosure. Building elevated buildings, for potential natural disasters, is untenable for most farmers. It should be standard and one of the few things the government should provide assistance or subsidize. Unfortunately, the government decides to subsidize farms that Bill Gates, other ultra rich, and politicians own. Our government also decides, people entering the country illegally and people who get themselves addicted to drugs, deserve more financial assistance or subsidies than our farmers. You know, the people who feed this country. Most of these are not normal natural disasters and all the planning can’t always help. I do agree with not locking them up and literally sealing their fate.
Oh that's why.....
And the pig poop contamination is still a problem in NC, not to mention the coal ash ponds that got flooded out.
So is the human waste 🗑
Make the barns floatable lol
Oh, I thought from the title it was going to be, "and that's why you never trust a scuba diving pig."
Very interesting and fascinating story and facts and interesting event and other about why farm😂 animals in deep water on farm so here's why this video has alk of he answers and more creepy and scary stuff so listen 😢
Sorry I'm late! Had to take peach crisp out of the oven. Hi Steve! Interesting in formation today. Catch you next time!
Cheers Loretta.
Insurance. Disaster relief. Tragic tragedies 😞 govt would declare the animals all sick afterwards anyway
So this little animation is n new to me. Do you do that so people can't use your content??
~04:54 Can anyone tell me where this is? I guessed outside Chicago, because that's the only huge stockyard I can think of. They didn't teach that in school, I learned it watching M*A*S*H back when it was on the air. I suppose maybe the Dallas Fort Worth area may have some huge stockyards also...
Are enormous farm buildings standing by to immediately receive, feed, water, and safely tend 1,000,000 farm animals?
One reason why police won't let people try to save Animals, because if something happens to the person, the person or his relatives can sue the state for letting the person try to save animals. Humans love to sue people for their dumb mistakes, while if they just stop the human from doing it, only the animal is lost.
VERMONT METNIONED ON THE INTERNET!!! HUGE WIN FOR MY STATE!!!! The flooding has been crazy here in recent years...
The fact they're built in floodzines only adds to the sadism
floating devices to help them stay afloat?...
Why not build the animal barns on grounds thats less likly to flood or open the doors so the animals can try and save themself
More local farms
These farms are all local to their area. What do you think "Local" means?
Living in sw michigan, I’m very surprised there are not more. Just an observation
As always the big ol' dollar is what's expected to come first instead of letting the farmer do their job of which emergency evacuation is a big part of. I understand the risks of having good people getting into problems as they try to save their livestock, but don't stop someone moving their animals to higher ground, lots of these people just aren't factory farmers.
These are some strange ass thumbnails man 😂
AINT THAT THE RDR 2 DECREASE HONER SOUND ???
This is why so many farmers HATE the CENTRALIZATION mentality, huge industrialized 'farming' complexes, processing sights and transportation hubs for distribution.
So they paid out a average of 134$ per animal? If 47 mill by 350k is right numbers ??
Just make the insurance lower if the farm is on a higher level.
👉 Animals in general, and food animals in particular, are viewed as disposable commodities. It's nauseating that many religious folks assuage their consciences by quoting the bible about dominion over animals - - without a thought in the world that dominion should mean responsibility, not carte blanche to do harm. 🤔
No they are not seen that way. To make money on these anumals ( because money is a must these days), the animals must be in good shape, healthy and genetically sound. It takes years, even decades to build up a good livestock group that thrive on that spesific piece of land, that gives healthy offspring and needs minimal veterinary care. So much work and effort goes into this, you have no clue- We agree completely on the bible part, luckily, most farmers dont cause harm( hence monetary loss) to their livestock, and most know their animals indivially, even when there are hundreds of them. Not chickens though, we still have a ways to go there.
@@Goldenhawk583 What a crock of bull pucky - - nicely, that might translate to animal poop. After 55 years in animal rescue, I can promise you that I do know what I'm talking about. You are trying to paint a golden picture of kindness to agri-animals. There have been improvements but generally, it just ain't so. Free-range chickens and pasture beef are pretty much an illusion. And it's a disgrace how hogs are confined in massive closed buildings. Painting pictures of happy pigs in green meadows on the side of the buildings is an intended deception.
Let's be realistic. How can you move millions of animals?
Ohhh..."farmers had to leave behind"...right, poor humans who locked in thousands of sentient beings to not just get tortured and slaughtered like usually but hey get tortured and murdered even more slowly and horribly...right?! How utterly sick - well, the true definition of 'humane'! Let's be real here.😠
This is why people are treated poorly, livestock.....