If you take a car trip anywhere outside the major city centres of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, etc (and from what I hear, Texas) you'll inevitably see many, many hea

If you take a car trip anywhere outside the major city centres of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, etc (and from what I hear, Texas) you'll inevitably see many, many head of cattle milling about in fields. I would put forth that no farmers really want to mistreat their animals, and will go at great lengths to keep them as safe as they can - this year's cyclone blizzard in Nebraska was especially indicative of this[0]. Farmers generally don't have a complete supply chain anyway - they sell their animals at the stockyard to whichever packing plant is buying them. [0] https://www.omaha.com/news/plus/heavy-snow-freezing-temps-have-nebraska-farmers-fighting-to-keep/article_72524850-bab7-56f9-9a94-430ce53ff004.html https://www.omaha.com/news/plus/heavy-snow-freezing-temps-ha...