This farm doesn't grow anything, but what they do is terrifying and necessary.
Somewhere in San Marcos, Texas there is 16-acre extra-ordinary ranch called The Freeman Ranch. Extra ordinary because instead of growing crops or raising livestock, they do something terribly morbid but quite necessary.
Across the ranch, more than 50 decaying human bodies are scattered. If you’re wondering, no, this is not some sort of serial killer hideout.
It is one of the key research institutes for studying how the human body decomposes.
It’s made doubly valuable by the fact that a similar “farm” would be illegal in Europe.
Researchers and graduate students must then clean and catalog the new bodies before they are put out into the field.
This method allows researchers to see the affect of bacteria and insects on decomposition. Some of the bodies are also placed inside a two-foot-high cage.
During the first stage, the body bloats out because the bacteria inside release gases as they consume the body’s carbon. Next is advanced decay. This happens after the body bursts and releases decomposition fluids. Finally, there is the dry decay stage, which comes when nearly all flesh on the body is consumed. This stage is usually reached after several weeks, and is the stage most of the bodies at the Freeman Ranch are in.
This mangled ribcage is the result of a feeding frenzy of vultures and other wildlife.
However, researchers there say they have never had a problem with people trying to break in.
It’d be easy to say that what they do at the Freeman Ranch is morbid and gross. In fact, their research actually does a lot of good in the world. Read more about the Freeman Ranch at Vox.
Source: Vox
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