Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
The dash for biogas and the death of 18,000 cows (blog.datadesk.eco)
1 points by ltrg 1005 days ago
1 comments

Let's be honest here. Cows are not people. Putting them at risk is not the same thing. What matters in ag operations is cost. The risk of a truck fire in the structure doesn't have to be zero, it just has to be low enough that the expected loss is tolerable.