Years ago I had a heifer get down having her first calf. Those black headed vultures found her before I did. She was too weak to stand, but not stretched out on her side, and fully conscious. They started eating her back there were it was bloody. I had to shoot her when I found her.
I was a TSCRA meeting a few years ago, and the speaker was a guy from the Ag Commissioners office in Austin. He told us they were having problems with hogs at a local golf course and had called his office for help. The folks at the golf course asked what would happen to the hogs after they were trapped. Upon being told they'd be harvested and the meat donated their reply was "Oh no, we can't have that! Can't they be re-homed or something?"