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Very Disturbing. Anyone know if there is truth to this? I was researching another subject and found this article. It's very disturbing. Just wondering if anyone knows if there is any truth to this? Elaine Dead Cats And Dogs Used To Make Pet Food |
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I've heard about this also.....very sad.:( |
I knew about the "by-products" but not about the "meals" and organic/natural labels amongst other things. :( |
Yup - sad :( __________________________________________________ _______________________________ |
It's true. :thumbdown The FDA released a report in 2002 as a result of their study showing the phenobarbital levels they found in some commercial dog foods. Phenobarbital is used to euthanize. Chart |
The easiest way to avoid the possibility....feed a high quality food and not one that lists generic ingredients such as just the word meat or meat by products instead of listing the specific source. Look at the labels in grocery store foods...often times on the ingredients list is just says...meat. |
The first time I read that I was totally shocked! It still makes me sick to think such a thing. |
This is what AFCCO says chicken by-product meal can contain: Chicken By-Product Meal: consists of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice. You can find all the AFCCO definitions here: Pet Food Ingredient Definitions: All Critters ~ Pawprints and Purrs, Inc. |
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When those products are rendered...it's heated to very high temperatures and mixed together then the fat is forced out, the remaining dry is the "meal". The above is the same process a dead dog/cat carcase would go through and the fat from those animals is put into dog foods. Ever open a can of cheap dog food...there is usually fat sitting on the top. |
I am not saying I don't believe any of this report, and I can imagine that some where in the US of A that this might go on in some reputable pet food companies. However, I did go to the bottom of the page and looked at the "source". The article comes from a non regular media outlet which is anti capitalistic, says so on their website in the "about us" section, so I pretty much think this is a scare tactic to make people look and think and maybe not buy .......Perhaps enabled by some Organic pet food industry...... or certain opinionated Vegans, but not all of them...... I will say that most of the road kill in our state,stays on the road for days on end, till the other critters, birds and other omnivores,(maybe even homeless humans) take it off the road. Oh yeah or ran over thousands of times by the tractor trailers and other vehicles. |
Very said, I honestly had no idea. |
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Dog Foods - Or What In The World Should I Buy? AAFCO Definitions for Pet Food AAFCO DEFINITIONS OF DOG FOOD INGREDIENTS Flint River Ranch FRR#351S AAFCO Definitions of Dog Food Ingredients |
I'm not arguing with you about definitions of what goes into pet food or spam,etc. I didn't say anything about conspiracies, just quoted the info on their own website, I am also not a PETA fan. I believe the definitions, didn't say I didn't. I am not saying anything about definitions of ingredients, just don't think most dog food places recycle animals from the Humane Society,dog pounds or road kill. You live in NC, I do too. Dead deer stay on the road till the trucks mush them and the weather blows and washes them from where they were killed. There used to be a dog food plant in Raleigh, not sure if its still there or not, they had a bad time with keeping rats out, perhaps cats got the real deal in their food ;) I understand there used to be a cattery in Charlotte that sold cats in large amounts to science places for students to dissect, perhaps they sold them to pet food places? In the Burlington area Carolina Biological used to buy already dead cats from the pound for dissection,but was accused by PETA of injecting latex into living cats..... even though they weren't. Have a great weekend! |
I didn't read the article, but were they referring to can food only? |
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