I don’t know the whole story on why this happened in the first place. But i was told by a warehouse who is in the business of buying unwanted food stuffs and reselling wholesale.
Currently they have 48,000 pounds of chicken sitting in a reefer truck that is slowly rotting away.
My question is, what can be done with such a load? The date for human consumption is fast approaching, or maybe even past.
Can “slightly” (not sure if there is such a thing) spoiled chicken be turned into something edible again? Jerky maybe? Can it be cooked again and fed to pigs?
If they have access to a composter who uses a lot of dry wood shavings he may have a good place to get rid of it. The millions of pounds of chickens killed for the New Castle out break were msotly just mixed with wood shavings and composted. Carbon, nitrogen and oxegen and it disolves odorlessly and quickly.
There is a commercial product that includes meat - its called blood and bone.
I think the idea is that you’d best leave composting meat to experts. That is due to the risk of disease that may will KILL the persons exposed to incorrectly composted meat.
I think the idea is that the typical residential compost pile in the backyard is going to attract small animals. But a commercial composting operation is going to use an enclosed building.
A residential compost pile is going to attract critters even without meat. I thought the idea was 1. less smell and 2. rotting meat can make the compost too hot.
I have a friend who is mostly vegetarian, but will occasionally throw fish scraps, or uneaten hot dogs bits from the kid, in her pile. She reports no problems.