Grossest Places I Have Been…So Far
- A rendering plant. (Edit: per Catcher In the Wry) In the old days: When farm animals died, and the farmer is responsible, they weren’t buried. The farmer called a local rendering plant and they send a truck to pick up the animal. They also picked up grease from restaurants, and butcher shop trimming. My dad made feed for farm animals and one of the recipes called for meat scraps. Guess who got to go to the rendering plant to pick it up. First time I was there, I walked into the door that employees use – which was on the rendering floor. I saw a pile of dead cows, pigs and horses, being gutted and then dragged into a vat. Still in existence
- US Army Physical Exam Urine Collection. Back when there was a draft, I was called to get an Army physical exam in Detroit, Michigan. Literally was in urine an inch deep. I guess when the guys peed in the cup, they figured they would show their rebellion and piss on the floor. Base is closed
- NYC Subway in the 1960’s. Pervs walking around with their dicks out, smell of crap, filth everywhere. Never been back, is it better?
- More places on the web that I care to admit.
There is only one rendering plant left in Illinois due to animal rights activists. The modern US rendering is not like it was when you were a child. However, due to animal rights activists, no new rendering plants are being built. A farmer can bury the animal on his property under very strict EPA regulations. As a result, Illinois is seeing an huge increase of horse farms with dead animals piled up because many animal woners cannot afford to dispose of the animal properly. It is a messy situation.
Other animal owners are taking the horses to auctions in order to get rid of them before the animals die so they don’t have to deal with the problem. There many animals are purchased and shipped to Mexico where rendering conditions are much worse than you described.
BTW: The grossest thing I ever saw was a man wildly masturbating in full daylight, in full view, at the foot of the Acropolis in Greece, with hundreds of tourists walking by.
Interesting about rendering plants, obviously not a topic I have kept current about.
and your BTW: there’s got to be a real good joke there someplace!
especially since you said he was wildly… LOL.
I thought the guy was doing a rope trick until I realized it wasn’t white rope that was circulating in the air. Fortunately nothing landed on us. Athens is forever etched in my memory now.
LOL – TMI TMI!
I didn’t go into this place, but smelled it instead. It was a Purina pet food plant in Omaha, right next to I-480. Being really hot and humid in the summer, well…the smell would knock a buzzard off of the proverbial **** wagon. Some WPCA facilities smelled better.
Yeah, I bet they had some meat scraps mixed in with all that cooked cereal filler. Blech.