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10 Ghoulish Corpse-Eating Creatures
Every year, there are countless cases of animals devouring human corpses. It’s not just an urban legend that pets are forced to feed on their owners, rotting remains after tragedy. Occasionally, these are horrific cases of infestations in what should be sterile clinical settings like hospitals and morgues. Other times, wild animals scavenge human remains. In rare instances, eaters of the dead are even encouraged to do so. It may be an affront to our presumed human dignity, but when all is said and done, flesh is flesh.
10Cadaver Rats
On July 18, 2014, Doris Kennard won a $237,000 judgment for emotional stress she suffered from corpse-eating rats at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC. Contracted to clean the deceased, Kennard faced flesh-mad rodents that would chew through body bags and seethe through cadavers’ nether regions. In 2010, she landed in the hospital from a rat attack suffered after pulling a tail she believed to be a feminin
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Hugh Farrell said every farmer has a right to a proper valuation of stock in the event of a TB breakdown. \ Donal O Leary
Suggesting that all animals could be accurately valued on a desktop basis rather than by live vaulations is “ludicrous”, the Irish Cattle & Sheep Farmers Association s (ICSA) animal health chair has said.
Hugh Farrell said every farmer has a right to a proper valuation of stock in the event of a TB breakdown, and that this right must be protected.
“Any moves to remove fair and proper valuations from the TB eradication programme will be vigorously opposed by [the] ICSA.
May 6, 2021 4:26 pm
Suggestions that on-farm valuations of TB reactor cattle could be ended in place of remote market price-based valuations have been slammed by one farm organisation.
Members of the TB Stakeholders Forum were recently shown key points from a report into on-farm market valuation (OFMV) of TB reactor cattle.
Professional services firm Grant Thornton was commissioned to carry out the report in January 2020.
According to the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA), the conclusion in the report suggest phasing out OFMV, and replacing it with an automated system whereby the farmer – or perhaps an advisor – would input the animal’s details on an online platform, and a figure of compensation would be determined through market value.