From: srnwhite@jeeves.uwaterloo.ca (Shannon White)
Subject: Re: THE NATURE OF REALITY
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:01:23 GMT

In article <q86m23j.jeffp@netcom.com>, jeffp@netcom.com (Jeff Papineau) writes:
> I have a hard time believing this thread turned into a Cattle Mutilation discus
> sion, but Oh Well...
> 
> I have read about plenty of ranchers who have lost cattle, met aliens, etc. Theyfirst start wondering what in the hell is going
>  on. Then they call the Sheriff,
> and in a number of the cases, the cops tell the people flat out: `ITs the work
> of extraterrestrails, and that's all the FBI will tell us".
> 
> After that, some of the ranchers have spotted UFO's,and even been abducted or 
> contacted. The literature is out there; I'm not writing a research paper,
> but it's out there, and anyone with a sincere interest in the subject such
> as myself has no problem finding it. 
> 
> Of course, many of our less esteamed freinds who don't read books on such
> "far out' subjects are predisposed to other viewpoints, but I'll ask you
> this:
> 
> If it was the work of the US government, why wouldn't they raise the cattel
> themselves? Much cheaper than flying multimillion dollar helicopters
> around, which is the ONLY possible "other" explaination for all of this.
> Actually, when you read Alien Harvest, there is really little question
> as to what this phenomena is caused by. And the real question is what
> the greys are doing with the material they collect. 
> 
> The answer that that question is beyond the comprehension of most of
> the people here, so I'll save my findings (which are pretty deep)
> for another post.
> 
> Jeff-
> 

This business about the cattle mutilations has gone far enough.  I am a farmer
(although I am at school I still find time to help out on the farm) from
Southwestern Ontario (Canada).  The farms in that area are in the 500 acre
range, so they don't really compare to the ranches in the American midwest.

With >500 acres to take care of, no farmer can keep track of all that may
happen on their farm.  Farms are very large, and often spread out.  If 
someone wanted to cross your land, you likely would never know about it.
Once we noticed a car parked next to one of our corn fields.  After it left,
we investigated and found that a patch of 2-foot high marijuana was being
grown in the middle of the field.  We were told by the police, this is
often done.  Cattle mutilations are not much of a step up from this.

Thus, the argument (put forward by previous posters) that farmers are somehow
omniscient within their farm just is not empirically true.

The greatest difficulties with cattle mutilations, is determining how the
cattle are abducted, without causing too much of a stir.  There is no reason
to bring in aliens for an explanation however.  Once a cow (or heifer, or
steer, or bull) is somehow immobilized, just put the cow in a truck (with
a winch), and haul it off to be bleeded.  Once done, dump the cow off in a
field somewhere.  You complain about tracks?  Well, a farm is covered with
tracks, so it would be difficult figuring which tracks are which, but the
biggest track coverer is the cattle themselves.  A few hundred 1000 pound
cattle will cover tracks in no time.

We once had a cow mutilated on our property.  I don't remember the particulars
(ie whether it was blood free or if any organs were taken), but there
was never any question that people had done it.  No tracks were found, but
this is not surprising - the cow was found in a ditch by the road.

Why would people do this?  Cultists have been mentioned in previous posts,
but you should also remember that people may do it for purely no reason.
People in the country and small towns can be just as sadistic as those from
the cities.  There are people that mutilate people, for some alien reason.
Surely there are those that mutilate animals.  After all, animals are easier
to get at.

That's all I have to say.

Shannon White
srnwhite@violet.waterloo.edu