Cattle. When cattle get foot and mouth disease a whole herd must be put down in lime pits quickly so the land may be put back into production. An individual case of rabies or thrush mistaken for rabies gets shot, even if it take the sorry state of current cattle hands 90+ bullets to do the job. The owners, far away in high society, only note the spreadsheet profit and loss. There is no love nor hate, just indifference at the individual steer or cow. Rather irritation and head scratching frustration arise at "The Problem of Overproduction & the Tendency of the Falling Rate of Profit", or "Limitless Growth Done on a Limited Planet".

The Cattlehands mostly just see it as a job, better to be in the pay of Jay Gould than the other half -- The Cattle. Plus the perks, ones that tends to attract many sadist as anything goes if they keep it out on the range away, from the dinning tables and country club bars of the 1%.