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What’s a Dead Truck? Hint: It’s Has to Do With Pet Food.
Man with an iron stomach In a four part series, on Discovery Channel’s show Dirty Jobs, we are taken on fascinating, albeit gruesome, look into the unsung laborers who make their living doing the unthinkable: Working at a rendering plant. The show, with its intrepid host Mike Rowe, takes us through the ghastly work involved in rendering a cow. The…
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Freshly roasted ass: What a rendering plant smells like
Have you ever wondered what a rendering plant smells like? People who have grown up near the Vernon, California, home to several rendering plants, are used to the smell of what they call, “freshly roasted ass.” Rendering plants, for the unfamiliar, are evil-smelling factories that break down animal carcasses for by products that go into making pet food. The Toxic…
