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Climate-critical S.F. plant unleashing ‘gut-pinching’ odors in Bayview

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 Bayview