Drone Pilot Hobbyist Discovers River of Meat Blood in Texas

[drokhole]

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Dallas Meat Packing plant investigated after drone images reveal pollution
source: sUAS News



A good news drone story for a change. Showing once again just how useful simple platforms can be for aquiring imagery. Every environmental department really ought to have one.

A Dallas sUAS enthusiast testing his camera equiped drone noticed something awry with the images he had taken. Speaking to sUAS News he said.

"Having flown in this area before, I knew that there was a “packing plant” close by, but before that day, I thought a packing plant and a slaughterhouse were different things.

I was looking at images after the flight that showed a blood red creek and was thinking, could this really be what I think it is? Can you really do that, surely not?..."

(more at the link: http://www.suasnews.com/2012/01/11389/dallas-meat-packing-plant-investigated-after-drone-images-reveal-pollution/)

[northoftheborder]

1. Yuck.

[Ecumenist]

2. Gross...oh my God, Gross.. You're going to tell me that

there's not better way to dispose of blood...REALLY???!!

[phantom power]

4. better? sure. cheaper? no.

[izquierdista]

7. Throwing money away is cheaper?

Next time you are at the garden store, look at the price on a package of "blood meal" (i.e. blood from slaughter houses that has been dried for application as a fertilizer), it ain't cheap. The real answer is some sort of bullshit like "well, that's outside our core business and we would have to buy expensive equipment and because of the liability and besides, there's some minorities living downstream and I don't like them, so we do it because we can."

[lonestarnot]

3. WTF

Disgusting!

[veganlush]

5. boycott cruelty.

go vegan

[JEB]

6. Why weren't

the drone's missiles fired?

[TheCruces]

8. OMG -- gross!!!

[truthisfreedom]

9. How much trouble would it have been for them to run it down the drain? Or, is it actually

a way to dry it and sell it as fertilizer?

[cry baby]

10. I would be PISSED if I lived downstream on the Trinity River! Nt

[jtuck004]

12. Or diverting it to a really large rose garden. /nt

[rhett o rick]

11. This type of photography will soon be illegal. nm

[Lost-in-FL]

13. Bingo! nt

[AtheistCrusader]

14. Truer words, never spoken.

[OnyxCollie]

15. Transparency is a non-starter. nt

[greyl]

16. This isn't important news of national interest. Locking. nt