You know those cows that died last week?

When reporters went to interview some of the ranchers, two interviewees mentioned black helicopters.

Now, were they reviving things that happened a long time ago?

Would they even know about that?

One of the remarks made it air, and the other had the person on, but not that particular line.

Fact Check-Death of Kansas cattle in June 2022 caused by extreme temperatures, officials and industry say

Contrary to posts online, there is no evidence that billionaire Bill Gates is involved in the death of at least 2,000 cattle in Kansas. State authorities and members of the industry have attributed the deaths to so-called heat stress, caused by extreme heat and humidity.

“Billionaire tech mogul, Bill Gates, is a reasonable candidate for consideration in killing about 3,000 cows in southwest Kansas under very mysterious and unknown circumstances,” reads part of a Facebook post

A conservative commentator with 200,000 Twitter followers suggested “Bill Gates has an answer” considering “cattle don’t just drop dead from heat”, and because Gates is “the biggest farmer in America”

The latter is a claim previously addressed by Reuters, Gates it not the owner of the majority of U.S. farmland; industry reports from 2021 show he owned about 0.027% of it. He is, however, the largest private farmland owner, according to ‘The Land Report’ .

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has said it knows of at least 2,000 cattle deaths in the southwest of the state, due to high temperatures and humidity. – Source

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