The Pig Farm

[poliphilo]

It's quite warm in the sun. I can smell the pig farm.

I've never seen the farm, I'm not even sure where it is (down Bardsley way, I think) but once in a while- not very often I'm glad to say-  I receive unquestionable evidence of its existence.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I would have expected paper mills to be odourless...

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Sulfur dioxide is just one of the more dominant themes of the toxic cocktail wafting out of a paper mill. My father worked for the mother plant of what was then the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, that pioneered the green-liquor process. The smell even today will bring tears to your eyes or worse, when the wind is blowing just right, and they have cleaned up their discharge considerably since I was a child.