[jihadjihad]

> The scavenging bird would always hover over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses

Reading this sentence gave me the unsettling feeling of cattle carcasses tossed into the trash, along with a feeling of, "surely that doesn't happen in the US?"

It turns out that landfilling a carcass seems to be a legitimate option (item 3 at [0]), and isn't something I'd ever thought about before.

0: https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/UT/Cow_Mort...

[dreamcompiler]

It doesn't happen as often in the US because unlike in India, cattle in the US get eaten and thus they don't frequently die of natural causes.

[hollerith]

And when it does happen, there's probably something wrong the the carcass, e.g., it died of an infection.

[turrican]

Grew up in ND/MT. In my experience the ranchers would use a tractor to move the carcass somewhere deserted, and then let the coyotes do the final clean-up.

[konfusinomicon]

just dont encourage burying them..farmers have a knack for hitting fiber optic lines when they bury dead cows