What Are Rendering Plants and How Do They Affect Your Cats’ Food?
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 is commonly found 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 peek inside a Rendering Plant
A look inside a Rendering Plant in California revealed A floor piled high with “Raw products” - 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 pile of dead animals seems to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.
It’s as if you are witnessing a nightmare as you hear popping bones, squeezing flesh and the cries of the not yet dead animals as the poor souls emit their final sounds of agony as they face their final curtain.
From this process, a fat of yellow grease or tallow is produced and skimmed off. At a hammer mill press, the remaining moisture is squeezed out and pulverized into a gritty powder. After bones and hair are removed, all that’s left are meat, bone meal and yellow grease.
Every day of the week, Rendering Plants truck millions of tons of their products to manufacturers that put it into cosmetics and animal feed that ends up in pet food products and since humans eat meat, it can end up on our tables.
Are your pets benefiting from these ingredients?
When you see ingredients on your pet food products labeled as; meat meal, meat by-products, poultry by-products, fish meal, fish oil, yellow grease, tallow, beef fat and chicken fat, now you know their origin. They all are produced at Rendering Plants.
There are additional ingredients, other than the aforementioned, added to pet foods and they include; flea collars from dogs, cats and other pets, Dursban from cattle insecticide patches, euthanized drugs used to put down pets and pharmaceutical leaks from antibiotics in livestock.
Rendering Plant officials claim that it is not economical feasible to have someone remove the pets’ ID tags surgical pins and needles and plastics wrap from supermarket rejected meat, chicken and fish. Therefore all that plastic and metal become part of your pet food.
Yes, it’s true that Rendering Plants do service a public need, without them our city streets could have a number of diseased and rotting carcasses that would pose a health hazard to its citizens. However, their toxic products are not safe for our pets.
The products that Rendering Plants produce are toxic to our pets. The rendering process does not destroy the drug used to euthanize our pets called Sodium Phenobarbital. Therefore this drug goes into our pet foods.
The pet food companies have proven that they are not going to produce food that is wholesome, nutritional and good for our beloved pets.
Why is it that we as pet owners refuse to invest the time needed to find out what is really in a bag of commercial pet food? Pet food companies will continue to produce pet foods that are killing our pets until we start making informed decisions.
The pet food companies hope that we remain ignorant to the fact that we are buying a product that is sentencing our pets to a premature death. Our failure to learn just what is inside the foods that we feed our pets is what the commercial pet food companies prey on. We spend billions of dollars yearly on food that is sending our pets to a premature grave. If this is you, for the sake of your pet’s life this must stop.
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