i was trying to perform a search on this, but it was taking too long, so forgive me any repetition. But is this true? Dead pets, unless you request otherwise a burial or cremation, are passed over to be rendered and used in pet food? On the surface I’d have no problem with this, except this would surely include pets that have died from cancer and the like. With BSE hitting the headlines here in Japan, is not also the case that we are running the risk of endangering our furry friends with such practices?
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One of my clients was a rendering plant. First of all, they did not use euthanized pets. IT was all farm animals, cows, sheep, pigs. Basically they used what the butcher did not.
Secondly, they cooked all of the meat and bone to create the meal from which the kibble was made. I doubt that any pathogens survive.
The carcasses are pretty rancid before they are processed. It is like a heiroymus Bosch painting at the plant.
I thought that prions were hearty little things.
They also collect the grease from the grease traps from your favorite restaurant, all the way from perkins to mcdonalds.
When I was growing up, whenever a pet died, we burried him or her ourselves, in our own backyard. Is this not the common practice?
And when I was working as a short-order cook, when we cleaned the grease traps, we just threw the gunk out. I’m not sure how it could be reprocessed into any sort of animal food, since they traps also got a good bit of runoff from the toxic cleaning agents we used on the grill surface every night.
things have changed, you can’t dispose of grease, in most municipalities, by throwing it down the drain.
Grills and the like are a separate system and a “protein company” collects it for all kinds of things.
look at this!
Well of course you don’t pour it down the drain! Legalities aside, that would clog your plumbing something awful. We threw it in the trash.
On that website you linked, there’s no indication that they take material from grill greasetraps; they seem to be referring mostly to used fry grease from the deep friers. Even if they do, they seem to be more interested in restaurant grease as a lubricant, than as an ingredient in animal food.
Man, what can I say. Whats your point?
OK, they don’t come to the Sunrise Breakfast House and pick up the GREASE every week or two.
They don’t come around every week or two to pick up the grease at Hardees.
And that huge fuckin’ dumpster lookin thing behind Mcdonalds (you know, the one behind the fenced in area where YOU think the dumpster sit all by itself)is NOT full of GREASE!
And if you read the link I gave you, you’ll see that it plainly says"grease" as one of the things they’re NOT interested in.
Rendering companies are only interested in pretty little body parts from good families
and they feed them soley to cows.
Yep, they still do it the old fashioned way! I see my error