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River of blood outside Dallas meatpacking plant

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dmcowen674

No Lifer
I'm sure this is happening at other locations but I am not surprised with this activity in Texas.



1-24-2012

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sidesho...5hdGlvbjIwMTIEcHQDc3RvcnlwYWdlBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3


Drone pilot finds “river of blood” outside Dallas meatpacking plant


A drone pilot hobbyist in Dallas stumbled across a river of blood coming from a large meatpacking plant. The small drone plane had a camera equipped, which captured images of the red river, suspected of being made of pig blood from the plant

The pilot, who has asked to remain anonymous, was put in touch with the Texas Environmental Crimes Task Force, who began monitoring the plant for violations. "Any time there is some type of discharge into the Trinity River… especially from an environmental standpoint, this is a real concern," Health and Human Services chief Zach Thompson told sUAS News. "I think they discovered a secondary pipe again is my understanding, so the question is who installed the pipe and why was it there."


The drone hobbyist says he captured the footage from the plant using only a point and shoot camera and a $75 airframe.
 
dmcowen674 said:
You from Texas too?
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Nope, but I have visited a few times. Not a place I'd like to live but the people were generally nice.

In looking at the picture I'd say any conclusions drawn were premature.
1) You can't tell with certainty that the "river" is red and not brown. It wouldn't be unheard of for a small creek like that to not run clear due to sediment.
2) You can't tell with certainty that the "river" originates there. It looks like it continues to curve down and exits the frame right above the word "plant" in the caption.
3) You can't tell with certainty that the "river" does or does not maintain that same color further upstream due to shadowing.

Aside from that, why is blood considered an environmental hazard? It's not like they're dumping gasoline.
 
anyone ok with this is simply one of those people who has to have a contrary opinion to anything they talk about, just to be 'that guy'
 
sactoking said:
Blood is biodegradable.
Blood is used as fish food.
Blood is used as fertilizer.

What's the problem?
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There's a lot of truth to that actually. The only real concern would be disease. If it was pathogen free then dump it. Environment would thank you.
 
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\send in the clean up crew....
 
NeoV said:
anyone ok with this is simply one of those people who has to have a contrary opinion to anything they talk about, just to be 'that guy'
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So what you are saying is that anyone who disagrees with you is a contrarian? How very contrary to reasonable discourse. 🙄

Anyway, it is hard to draw an opinion, not much hard info. If you look at the site via Google Earth, you don't see any blood from what I can tell, so perhaps this does not happen on a regular basis. Of course that is merely a snapshot in time, just like the "drone operators" pic.

Perhaps a burst pipe or holding tank?
 
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It's disgusting, i'm pretty far to the right in environmental things, but that's just nasty. The damn plant should be taking proper care with it's organic effluents and properly disposing of them.
 
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