'Body
farm' banned in Brazil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AP) Posted
June 27, 2007
Rio
de Janeiro airport authorities have expressed concern over efforts by
the Brazilian government to build an undead "body farm". Saying
that "the scavenging birds could endanger low-flying aircraft as
they circled the undead."
Local residents
also fear that vultures will flock towards the smell of the decomposing
corpses. So far at least, the plans have been shelved.
The government
had announced that it intended to keep up to 20 reanimated cadavers
at the facility at any one time. The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
had wanted to use the site to study how necrosis victims decompose under
a controlled range of conditions.
The reanimates
are all secured. Some constantly exposed to the heat of the day, some
emerged in water, and some partially buried.
Most bodies
used by the scientists are made available for medical research by prior
consent of the deceased closest relatives.
However,
local buzzards are interfering with the work. They frequent the skies
and often feed on dead animal carcases and other carrion prey on the
ground.
In their
defense, the government stressed that vultures only prey on the dead,
not the reanimated, arguing that the movement of the prey would deter
any vulture from feeding.
The government
program has been notoriously short coming with information. However,
in an apparent effort to assuage residential fears , newly released
plans for the site have been made available. They include an electric
fence around the property, a sound system to emit recorded warnings
given by predators as territorial markings, buzzard-proof cages to protect
exposed undead and a 150ft grass buffer around the farm to absorb potential
bacteria carrying, rainwater as it runs off.
Regardless,
airport officials and local residents both were able to convince a local
judge that to allow this 'body farm' was too much of an undesirable
element.
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