The Garbage Goat is a goat-shaped metal sculpture in Spokane, Washington, with an internal vacuum that allows the public to "feed" trash to it. The Garbage Goat was created in 1974 by Sister Paula Mary Turnbull, a local artist known as the "welding nun", and it debuted at Expo '74, a world's fair exhibition hosted in Spokane. The Garbage Goat was met with protests from dairy goat farmers, who objected to the sculpture for perpetuating stereotypes that goats supposedly eat anything.