Posted on 09/19/2014 6:43:45 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
PEORIA, Ill.— Terry Whitehead's lab here is stocked with glass boiling flasks, Bunsen burners—and cans of extra-strength air freshener.
The microbiologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture works with pig manure in a quest for something that has largely eluded scientists and entrepreneurs: an affordable way to clear the air in farm country.
In a region where hogs can outnumber people, Mr. Whitehead's research is the ultimate icebreaker.
"First, you say, 'I work with manure,' and they say, 'What?' Then you say, 'Odor,' and they say, 'Thank God,' " says the lanky 57-year-old, who recently attended the North American Manure Expo in Missouri. ("It would be a real waste" to miss it, the event website says.)
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As to CONgre$$, and the stench of years of atrophy.. Well,, they're working on it..
North American Manure Expo in Missouri.??
should not that have been held in Washington DC???
City folk don’t understand manure is the smell of money.
Not only is it the smell of money, it is the musk that prevents mosques.
or may be the next Democrat Pres Convention.
I once visited a very large pig farm in Tidewater Virginia.
I was impressed with how neat and clean everything was. Then I got a whiff of that odor. Apparently nothing they can do about that.
ROFLMAO!!!! Great response.
Merci beucoups! :-)
So... they’re doing the work over at the White House...?
The only way “to take the stink out of pig manure” is to throw the porkers out of Congress. No porkers, no crap.
Once drove past a pig farm in North Carolina. Took the paint right off my car. I’m going to bottle the smell and sell it as a painter remover.
They should be working on getting the stink out of “government science”.
It’s mother nature. Unless they can train the pigs to use flush toilets, it’s unclear what else can be done. Food additives might ameliorate the problem, but a nonstink feed for pigs would probably be prohibitively costly. Right now they will eat most any sort of slop. Turning garbage into ham, that isn’t too bad a trade, even with the stink.
who recently attended the North American Manure Expo in Missouri.
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As God is my witness, I never knew there was such a thing.
I spent five years in Western Kansas. Those cattle feed lots were pretty bad but not in the same class as pig farms.
The worst smell tho was a place called National By Products. If the wind was right when you drove by, you literally had to hold your breath.
I honestly don’t see how people can stand working there. I once saw a lady wearing a jacket with “National By Products” across the back. There was also a drawing of a cow. I thought to myself that they should have shown the cow on it’s back with all four legs in the air and stink lines coming off it.
I want to know what they use to abate the urine smell around Ted Kennedys’ grave. You know there has to be a steady stream from people stopping by to pay their respects.
Do a search on “manure pit deaths.” The stuff is deadly.
I don’t know, that sounds about as easy as taking the stupid out of biden or the muslim out of the mulato.
Cattle in cattle trucks smell pretty barnyard-y too. One afternoon in Omaha I had the privilege of passing two semis hauling live cattle in well ventilated trailers. This is what steak smells like before you kill it....
Yes cattle trucks in Kansas are even worse than the feed yards. If you are following one, you often see manure falling out the back.
Other states seem to make them keep their trucks cleaner as I have seen cattle trucks or trailers here in Florida and there is no smell at all.
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