Now its Dead Cows
Its crazy how reading about the creepy animal deaths everyday makes it sound so much worse that it probably really is. Any kind of death is bad but some people think that the coming is indeed coming and start comparing it to some stuff in the bible.
You know what it is? Its the internet and media.
I am not saying that I am perfect and don’t fall for the media traps. If that was the case, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post because it got my imagination stirred up.
It just seems with headlines right at your finger tips, its extremely easy to get the feeling that this is happening more and more. Not to mention stirring up wild imaginations. With this being a hot topic, more and more reporters are looking for different animal deaths and reporting on it.
Take the Google Mass Animal Death Map for example: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201817256339889828327.0004991bca25af104a22b
Another headline that I just read and prompted me to vent with this post is the recent: “200 cows dead, is it prophecy?“. Reading something like that can really stir up some BS and the article seems to leave out the details leaving us dumb readers that it all happened overnight by demonic flying monkeys and we don’t have much time left.
A quick search on a similar headline of “200 cows” brought be to a more comforting article: http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/200_Cows_Die_in_Portage_County_113829069.html
The article mentions that the cows began to die early last week from Acute Interstitial Pneumonia. The cows ended up dying with within 12 hours of showing first signs as treatment medication was not effective.
Technically, that could be a overnight death for some…but not all of them died like that…and it was from a virus.
All in all, any kind of death is not good to hear or read about whether it be animal or human. The point that I am trying to make is that during times like this, its easy to look over at all the other news that is happen throughout the world. Remember a year ago when it was all earthquake news? Or what about the BP oil spill?