You’re thinking of cattle self-mutilation.
The cutting really is a cry for help.
You can tell them apart because the self-mutilating ones have a tattoo of that poster at the butcher’s with the cuts of meat…
Emo beef! It carves itself!
This thread needs more cowbell.
Welcome, Carol. And I sincerely mean that.
But I must ask, why are you into mutilating the English language? What do you have against apostrophes?
Come now my dear,Ive come to discuss the subject saying things such as " Sometimes they chew off the head and take it away to eat. Birds pick out the eyes. Then flies and bacterial action trim up the torn edges until they look nice and smooth. That tells me you havent looked at this seriously at all. Chews the head off ,shees.
Welcometotheforum,Carol.
Move the thread to wherever it suits the board,it doesnt matter to me. (Space Space in consideration for old eyes). I didnt know this was a board in which to honor the beloved Cecil whoever he is. I was flipping thru some searches when I came across an article he wrote. Now is there anyone here that thinks this is just natural that it comes under the heading of range death? I take it from the replies there are and Im not sure what any of the rest of you have thought in the past but it seems that the subject has been tossed aside and Im curious as to why. The fact that Marley is dead is indisputable. The animal is found dead but the rancher knows when an animal dies of lighting strike,or black leg,or any number of reasons. In the case of actual cattle mutilations the rancher inspects the animal ever wary of anything but the usual causes for the death of an animal that costs him hundreds of dollars,btw,not all range cows are insured.Not any rancher can walk into his friendly insurance company and tell them hes got an animal that died by some strange cause,the insurer will quickly point out that the insurance doesnt cover the animal.Ok,is anyone interested in this or am I wasting my time?
So what’s your explanation, carol?
And do you have any opinion on Charles II of England, described by his contemporaries as “the Swarthy Stuart” and “a tall Black man”? Just, you know, curious . . .
Torpor Beast said in part,“Why would the government cut up some random farmer’s cows on an open pasture, when they can just buy a bunch of them and move them somewhere less conspicuous? And if they’d need to test some specific animals for something, they could just make up a reason to get to the animals.”
Odd isnt it,for every known phenomenon theres a most thought of answer,in this case its the government running its own herd of cattle thereby avoiding having anyone even glance there way. For ufos its Why Dont They Just Land On The White House Lawn. I was on Prodigy years ago,we had a lady lawyer in the mix of posters that gave such a thougtful answer Ive never forgotten it. She suggested that these animals that are taken for their soft tissue have been grazing on federal lands under which hot radio active material has been buried,the object of this exercise is to take animals test their soft tissue to see if any of the radio active material has found its way into the grasses and plants the animals have been feeding on. In many many cases these animals that are chosen for their soft tissue have been grazing for free on Federal lands,interesting thought isnt it?
[Emily Litella]
What’s all this I hear about cattle mutes? What have you got against noisy cattle! They put food on the table! They have a short life and you don’t like their sounds? Why can’t you just not listen? Which end would you have to stick a mute in, anyway? This is outrageous!
What???
Oh…mutations…Never mind. 
[/Emily Litella]
Not really that interesting. If the government were interested in testing for radioactivity in animals grazing on federal land, they’d most likely just BUY a certain percentage of the herds that are grazing on federal lands each year and test those.
WHY is the conspiracy nut’s answer to everything some gigantic super secret government plot? It’s so much easier and cheaper for the gov to just BUY the animals outright instead of hiring teams of covert specialists to go out in the black helicopters to secretly take down and mutilate a cow a week to check for something that could actually be checked by a geiger counter and an annual cull.
Wait, what? Marley is dead? Say it ain’t so!
sigh…I guess the ranchers are mistaken then,they find these animals in such a condition they call in the ranch vet,the ranch vet cant make sense of what he sees and calls in law enforcement.Law eforcement and the ranchers insist that the government gets involved.The government sends out its own Ken Rhommel who determines theres nothing amiss with these animals and says so in a hand written report he then gives to each of the ranchers. However,he orders no autopsies,isnt that amazing,I mean wouldnt you think the very first thing this man sent by the Justice Dept.would do is to determine what actually killed these animals,he doesnt do that.Instead he says they all died by common range death,end of story.But the ranchers are furious over his conclusions and rightly so,what he did was to tell these men that raise animals for a living that they cant determine common range death. Some of us have seen the ranchers point of view.Ok,thanks for your time I appreciate it .
If they died by common range death, the thing I’d expect a competent official to say is that they died by common range death.
What’s your explanation?
Do you know why nobody bothers to humor people like you, carol? It’s because we know that people like you won’t accept ANY explanation other than the one you made up in your head or heard from someone who made it up in his head. You and yours have convinced yourselves that you’re right and won’t hear another idea about it.
Hi carol nistri. Unfortunately I have to say this type of reasoning is usually employed by conspiracy theorists who lack evidence. I guess this Ken Rommel guy could order a necropsy on every cow that a farmer says looks mutilated, but it seems to me this would turn into a big waste of money at some point. How many times is he supposed to run a necropsy on cows with fundamentally the same post-mortem injuries just to satisfy curiosity on something that’s easily explainable in the first place?