Was trying tto unnerstand how diaries blow up.
Seems most common culprit is dries milk product - ie dust explosions/fires
Where the cultists doing something else with 18 k 'exploded' cows?
>In January 1932, the Townsville Daily Bulletin, an Australian newspaper, reported an incident where a dairy cow was partially blown up and killed on a farm at Kennedy Creek (near Cardwell, North Queensland). The cow had reputedly picked up a detonator in her mouth while grazing in a paddock. This was only triggered later, when the cow began to chew her cud, at a time when she was in the process of being milked. The cow had its head blown off by the resulting explosion, and the farmer milking the cow was knocked unconscious
https://www.hazardexonthenet.net/article/139820/Dairy-industry-fires-and-explosionspreventionprotection-and-mitigation.aspx#