Oh Dirty River by Helen Lehndorf
The town where I grew up was small, ugly and smelledlike burning blood. Most of the dads and a lot of the mums andheaps of the big brothers and sisters worked at the Freezing Works. Thousands of cows and sheep and even a few hundred pigs would get trucked in, slaughtered,chopped up and packaged in cling film each day. The burning-blood smell came from the incineratorwhere