A fire has ripped through a dairy farm in Dimmitt, Texas, leaving 18,000 animals dead.
Death in fire seems like an exceptionally appalling way to go — involving a combination of pain and fear that the comfortable imagination can only dimly grasp. It would be preposterous to think that cows are unintelligent enough to be immune to that fear and pain. Each of those 18,000 animals — if they were not rapidly made unconscious by the smoke — must have suffered tremendously.
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