You can talk about shitty assignments all you want, but KSDK Reporter Elizabeth Matthews has you beat with one story she did yesterday. 

Matthews did a story about an Illinois farmer who uses mountains of human waste to fertilize his crops. His neighbors don't like it because that says his land smells like.....well shit. 

"It doesn't smell very good," Matthews comments, moments after sticking her bare hands into a shit pile and lifting a glop to her nose for a sniff.

No Really.... she did that.

That had some people on Twitter cringing just a bit. 

Treated or not, I'm not going to pick up human shit and hold it to my nose.

Just saying....

​Let's go to the video: