The Olfactometer was built in response to rural and local community people and small family farms in the United States and Canada protesting the rise of corporate hog and cattle farms. These farms, owned by nameless corporations that take months of legal paperwork to track down, are run by one or two families only and raise between 1000 and 4000 hogs or head of cattle at a time.
Many of these farms have sub-farms within themselves and each has a waste dump about the size of your average Olympic size swimming pool! So if the wind is in the right direction you'll catch "the big stink" being complained about by the protestors.
You see its now been found that this large concentration of fecal smell contains E-coli bacteria which can infect the lungs of the weak, sick, very young, and elderly as much as influenza, cholera, the cold, or pneumonia. In some cases one might as well just start smoking a carton of cigarettes a week to beat the E-coli to the punch!
This Olfactometer is designed to keep tabs on these "offenders". We hope!