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Environment & Energy

Farmer-Rick

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4. They could turn that waste into fertilizer

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Thu Jun 4, 2026, 08:41 AM

19 hrs ago

What a waste. All that blood and bones are actually useful if applied carefully to farmland. Bonemeal and bloodmeal are actually sold for a pretty penny at Lowe's and other big box retail corporations. Instead of dumping it they could sell it to a fertilizer processing plant

Not only were they polluting everything, they were dumping stuff that could be resold for a nice extra profit.

Just another example of how corporations are destructive and inefficient. Just a shield for the super rich to protect them from their own stupidity.

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