On a pot-holed street at the edge of San Francisco’s southeastern shoreline, the scent of progress wafts through the air — and it reeks. Some have described the odors as “gut-pinching.” Others, nauseating. Many more say it’s downright disgusting.
It’s actually the smell of death: of countless carcasses being broken down, boiled and ultimately transformed into new products like animal feed, soaps, cosmetics and sustainable fuels sourced from the discarded bodies of animals.
Climate-critical S.F. plant unleashing 'gut-pinching' odors in BayviewSource: San Francisco Examiner