Darling International renders cattle parts for pet food. The stench coming out of that plant is horrendous. Most of the time they do not use the chemical buffers required to neutralize the stench that billows out of the chimneys, even though by law they are required to.

There is nothing worse than sleeping with your windows open on a cool spring evening and being woken up in the middle of the night, physically ill from the overpowering stench in the air. I called the city several times and complained and it would get better for a few weeks, then it was back again.

Many times I drove over rotted cattle hoofs which had apparently dropped from trucks onto Dahlman Avenue. Also I have seen sickly, filthy cattle, barely able to stand, brought in there on trucks that were nearly covered with runny manure. I have seen lots of cattle trucks, but never any as filthy as these were. Only between 1 to about 3 head at a time were brought in. I am wondering what these cattle were used for as I just found out that Darling International does no slaughtering. Is this cattle for Nebraska Beef?

This entire area and these businesses need to be thoroughly investigated.