> The scavenging bird would always hover over sprawling landfills, looking for cattle carcasses

Reading this sentence gave me the unsettling feeling of cattle carcasses tossed into the trash, along with a feeling of, "surely that doesn't happen in the US?"

It turns out that landfilling a carcass seems to be a legitimate option (item 3 at [0]), and isn't something I'd ever thought about before.

0: https://efotg.sc.egov.usda.gov/references/public/UT/Cow_Mort...