There are several hundred Rendering Plants across the U.S. They quietly dispose of millions of tons of dead animals, meat waste and fat.
What would you find in Rendering Plants?
Rendering Plants are places where you can commonly witness many types of animals in varying states of existence such as; diseased, disabled, dying, dead and decaying. You can also hear their cries of agony. These places process animal flesh and grease, from fast food restaurants, into bone meal, yellow grease, tallow and commercial meat where much of their products end up in commercial pet foods.
Rendering Plants sell their products to cat and dog food companies as well as cosmetic companies. Yet they claim that by removing dead and decaying animals from our city streets, they are doing a public service and not doing it for profits.
A look inside a rendering plant
Inside a Rendering Plant, there is a large vat used to cook this mixture of flesh and grease and that creates heat to the tune of about 90% inside the plant. There are piles of animals awaiting their turn to be added to the vat. The piles of skunks, rats, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats, raccoons and various other animals seem to take on a life of their own as maggots swarm all over the piles.
As workers operating mini dozers load the animals into a 10-foot-deep stainless steel pit also known as a vat, a giant auger-grinder begins to turn. The sounds of popping bone, squeezing flesh and the final cries can be heard.
During this process, a soup produces a fat of yellow grease or tallow that rises to the top and is skimmed off. The product is then sent to a hammer mill press which squeezes out the remaining moisture and pulverizes the product into a gritty powder. Shaker screens sift out excess hair and large bones. All that is left is yellow grease, meat and bone meal.
All types of p;aces from poultry farms to cattle feed lots, dairy and hog farms to fish feed plants and pet food manufacturers purchase this goo and mix it with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals that meat-eating humans, in turn, will eat.
Are your pets benefiting from these ingredients?
Don’t you think that your pet deserves better than to be fed ingredients from Rendering Plants? So now you know what to do when you see labels on your pet food with ingredients such as; beef and chicken fat, poultry by-products, fish meal, tallow, yellow grease, meat meal or meat by-products - avoid them.
If you think that’s all of the bad stuff that goes into your pet foods - think again. There are fles collars from dogs, cats and other pets, euthanized drugs used to put down pets, Dursban from cattle insecticide patches and pharmaceutical leaks from antibiotics in livestock.
In spite of the fact that heavy metals from pets’ ID tags, surgical pins and needles, plastic wrap from supermarket rejected meat, chicken and fish, according to Rendering Plant officials, they would incur too much cost to remove ID tags, Styrofoam trays and shrink wrap so that too becomes part of your pet food.
It’s not unfair to conclude that without Rendering Plants, U.S. cities could be filled with diseased and rotting carcasses. Diseases and bacteria could infect the population but the big question is; is it safe for pet food manufacturers to use products from Rendering Plants in our pet foods?
In the final analysis, we have to understand that Rendering Plants produce products that are toxic to our pets. The drug Sodium Phenobarbital is used to euthanize pets of all type. This drug is not destroyed in the rendering process; therefore the product produced by the Rendering Plants that go into our pet foods contains sodium Phenobarbital.
All pet owners want is food for our four-legged friends that is wholesome, nutritional and free of toxic ingredients. The pet food companies have proven they are not going to do that.
We as pet owners continue to buy their products even though it has been proven that they produce pet foods that are killing our pets. Why as pet owners do we refuse to invest time to discover what really goes into a bag of pet food?
You must realize that you are, in fact, sentencing your pet to a premature and painful death. Yes, I’m speaking to all you pet owners that purchase the commercial pet foods. Because of your failure to learn what goes into the foods you feed your pets, the commercial pet food industry capitalizes on that and while pet owners spend billions of dollars buying this cheap and toxic foods, your pets die prematurely and the pet food companies laugh all the way to the banks.
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