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Originally Posted by Abby08  FiDebra, I have read both articles all the way through and conclude that one is written by someone who has knowledge and read the actual papers and came up with a real conclusion. The other article was written by a person who writes for a living and dosn't necessarily actually read or quote from any scientific proof,they just write for what will make an excitable and inflamitory article....... |
That is why I said there is conflicting sides ..... not that both are entirely right. ????
I am sure there
have been euthanized animals used in dog food. Maybe not directly. The rendering plants sell their rendered product to another company that then sells it on to the dog food company as meat by-products and meat meals, etc. If you read further on the situation in LA or it may have been the one I was reading about in St. Louis (they had the same situation there), they were able to put pressure on all the shelters to stop giving their animals to the rendering plants. But, that left another problem -- no funds to dispose of the animals after euthanizing them. Funds to cremate them was not available and they started dumping them in land fills! So, I do not think the practice is so wide spread now. But what I was trying to say is -- as long as it is legal, it is going to be done somewhere at sometime. The law needs to change.
And I certainly am not going to buy any product that contains an unspecified "meat" byproduct or meal.