Could this be true? Stunned..... - Page 1

Please check this link about 1/4 of the way down - it says,

"The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a pet food plant every month."

http://www.thedogfoodconspiracy.com/dog-food-secretsii.php

Ugh!

Someone please tell me we don't do this.

yes, dear, it is true and a very good reason to read labels carefully. 

yes they do and animals we love  get poisoned eating that stuff too. When I first heard it I said no way can't be true but I am afriad I found out yes it is.

I am sometimes overwhelmed by atrocities we are bombarded by daily....

agghh..yuck...now i feel bad for feeding my younger brother dog-food when we were little--i told him it was cereal--

now what do i do???i can't buy the book, buit now im scared if i try to make homemade food i would do worse! just recently i fed my dog a handfull of raisins then read the next day that raisins were toxic to dogs!!! so much to keep up with...

Here's a bit of more stunning fact: These ingredients are also used in livestock,sheep,chicken and swine feed.So it is part of our food chain as well.

If you actually read the base web site this whole thing is an ad to promote a few select foods.  I wonder how much those food manufacturers are paying for this type of advertising....

What is the dead dog/cat indgredient called on the label of dog food bags?

Just wondering what to look for.

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The Dark Side of Recycling - Rendering Plants
(Where our nations overpopulated, unwanted pets go, once they end up in shelters)

"The rendering plant floor is piled high with ’raw product’: thousands of dead dogs and cats; heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses; whole skunks; rats and raccoons --all waiting to be processed. In the 90-degree heat, the piles of dead animals seem to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.
"Two bandanna-masked men begin operating Bobcat mini-dozers, loading the ‘raw’ into a 10-foot-deep stainless-steel pit. They are undocumented workers from Mexico, doing a dirty job. A giant auger-grinder at the bottom of the pit begins to turn. Popping bones and squeezing flesh are sounds from a nightmare you will never forget.

"Rendering is the process of cooking raw animal material to remove the moisture and fat. The rendering plant works like a giant kitchen. The cooker, or ‘chef,’ blends the raw product in order to maintain a certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste and supermarket rejects.

"Once the mass is cut into small pieces, it is transported to another auger for fine shredding. It is then cooked at 280 degrees for one hour. The continuous batch cooking process goes on non-stop 24 hours a day, seven days a week as meat is melted away from bones in the hot 'soup.’ During this cooking process, the soup produces a fat of yellow grease or tallow that rises to the top and is skimmed off. The cooked meat and bone are sent to a hammermill press, which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes the product into a gritty powder. Shaker screens sift out excess hair and large bone chips. Once the batch is finished, all that is left is yellow grease, meal and bone meal.

"As the American Journal of Veterinary Research explains, this recycled meat and bone meal is used as ‘a source of protein and other nutrients in the diets of poultry and swine and in pet foods, with lesser amounts used in the feed of cattle and sheep. Animal fat is also used in animal feeds as an energy source.’ Every day, hundreds of rendering plants across the United States truck millions of tons of this ‘food enhancer’ to poultry ranches, cattle feed-lots, dairy and hog farms, fish-feed plants and pet-food manufacturers where it is mixed with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals that meat-eating humans, in turn, will eat.

"Rendering plants have different specialties. The labeling designation of a particular ‘run’ of product is defined by the predominance of a specific animal. Some product-label names are: meat meal, meat by-products, poultry meal, poultry by-products, fish meal, fish oil, yellow grease, tallow, beef fat and chicken fat.

"Rendering plants perform one of the most valuable functions on Earth: they recycle used animals. Without rendering, our cities would run the risk of becoming filled with diseased and rotting carcasses. Fatal viruses and bacteria would spread uncontrolled through the population.

"Death is the number one commodity in a business where the demand for feed ingredients far exceeds the supply of raw product. But this elaborate system of food production through waste management has evolved into a recycling nightmare. Rendering plants are unavoidably processing toxic waste.

"The dead animals (the ‘raw’) are accompanied by a whole menu of unwanted ingredients. Pesticides enter the rendering process via poisoned livestock, and fish oil laced with bootleg DDT and other organophosphates that have accumulated in the bodies of West Coast mackerel and tuna.