Do They Use Euthanized Animals In Pet Food

One more confirmation to the horror many of usa accept suspected for years; an EPA document clearly states Rendering Facilities "obtain animal by-product materials" from "animal shelters." Along with some other EPA report, the testify is mounting; electric current pet food regulations must be changed.

No pet lover in their right listen would ever wish to feed their dog or cat ground up dog and true cat. Only that is exactly what is happening. Deep within the EPA document 'Emissions Factors and Policy Applications Center, Chapter 9: Food and Agricultural Industries, Department 9.5 Introduction to Animal & Meat Products Preparation' is the section 9.5.3 Meat Rendering Plants. The truth is crystal clear.

"Meat rendering plants process animal by-production materials for the production of tallow, grease, and high-protein meat and bone meal. Plants that operate in conjunction with fauna slaughterhouses or poultry processing plants are called integrated rendering plants. Plants that collect their raw materials from a variety of offsite sources are called independent rendering plants. Contained plants obtain animal by-product materials, including grease, claret, feathers, offal, and unabridged animal carcasses, from the following sources: butcher shops, supermarkets, restaurants, fast-food chains, poultry processors, slaughterhouses, farms, ranches, feedlots, and creature shelters."
http://www.epa.gov/ttn/main/ap42/ch09/final/c9s05-3.pdf

Since the kickoff public awareness of rendered (cooked) euthanized dogs and cats, the Pet Food Industry has claimed this type of rendered material is not used in pet foods. All the same, to present twenty-four hour period, there is no evidence or regulation to support their claim.

This is simply the almost inexcusable horror. If no pet food or pet treat contained ingredients sourced from rendered dogs and cats, pet food regulations would clearly state such ingredients are forbidden. They do non.

In fact, existing pet nutrient ingredient definitions and pet nutrient regulations do Non let for pet foods to clearly divide themselves (those using human form meat from those using rendered euthanized animals). There is no regulatory means for a pet food that does not use ingredients sourced from rendered dogs and cats from pet foods that do use ingredients sourced from rendered dogs and cats.

Why? The only answer could be is those that do use ingredients sourced from rendered dogs and cats don't want us to know who they are.

Regardless of quality of ingredients (regardless if ingredients are sourced from rendered dogs and cats), existing regulations state the pet food labels must all await the same. Aforementioned 'Premium' or 'Good for you' claim, same 'AAFCO Nutritionally Counterbalanced'. Again, regardless if the pet food includes meat from the aforementioned quality of meat you lot purchase at the grocery or if the pet food includes meat from rendered dogs and cats, according to existing regulations the pet food label and advertising must all expect and announced to exist the same. Ridiculous.

The only fashion pet owners tin can possibly avoid using pet foods that include ingredients sourced from rendered dogs and cats is to read ingredients. Co-ordinate to FDA testing, "there appear to be associations between rendered or hydrolyzed ingredients and the presence of pentobarbital in dog food." (Pentobarbital is the drug used to euthanize dogs and cats.) The FDA found the common pet food ingredients Brute Fat, Meat and Bone meal, Beef and Bone meal, and Animal Digest "could include euthanized animals." http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/CVM/CVMFOIAElectronicReadingRoom/ucm129134.htm

Considering existing pet food regulations and existing pet food ingredient definitions do not allow for grade or quality statements of ingredients, considering at that place is a slew of evidence that conspicuously shows euthanized dogs and cats are rendered present day, careful pet owners must avert any pet food and care for that incorporate the ingredients Brute Fat, Meat and Bone meal, Beefiness and Os meal, and Animal Digest. Until pet nutrient regulations provide conscientious pet owners with a classification of 'human grade ingredients', nosotros take no option but to presume any canis familiaris food, cat nutrient, or pet treat that contains Animate being Fat, Meat and Os meal, Beefiness and Bone meal, and/or Beast Digest does indeed include rendered dogs and cats.

Pet owners MUST be provided with articulate and documented evidence to grade or quality of ingredients.

In the EPA certificate "Development Document for the Proposed Effluent Limitations Guidelines and Standards for the Meat and Poultry Products Industry Point Source Category (xl CFR 432)"…

Page 155
"Regulations promulgated under the authority of Poultry Products Inspection Human action are more specific and crave that all carcasses, organs, or other parts of carcasses exist condemned, if it is determined on the basis of a sound statistical sample that they are adulterated because of the presence of any biological residue (ix CFR 381.eighty). Biological residue is defined as whatever substance, including metabolites, remaining in poultry at the fourth dimension of slaughter or in any of its tissues later slaughter, as the consequence of treatment or exposure of the live poultry to a pesticide, organic chemical compound, metallic or inorganic chemical compound, hormone, hormone-like substance, growth promoter, antibody, anthelmintic, tranquilizer, or other agent that leaves a residual (ix CFR 381.1)."

Condemned animal carcasses are currently allowed (by FDA compliance policy) to exist rendered into pet nutrient and pet treats. They become the pet food ingredients by-production meal, poultry by-product meal, chicken by-product repast, beefiness by-product meal, meat and os repast, beef and bone meal, animal fat, and/or fauna digest.

Page 184
"When the solids are disposed of by rendering, the apply of organic polymers is preferred to avoid loftier aluminum or iron concentrations in the rendered production produced."

Equally with some pet food manufacturers, not all renderers process horrendous ingredients into pet nutrient ingredients…
Page 221
"EPA also observed during site visits that some independent renderers refuse raw materials that accept (one) a pH beneath 4 SU (with 3 SU being a full general cut-off), (2) ferric chloride due to its corrosive nature, and (3) other contamination (eastward.k., pesticides)."

But…cheers to existing AAFCO regulations (American Association of Feed Control Officials is responsible for all pet food ingredient definitions and for the lack of pet food ingredient grade nomenclature), pet owners are not provided with data of which pet foods utilise by-products that include contaminants or which pet foods employ by-products that are human course quality internal organs (considered by-product by definition).

So, fine. AAFCO and FDA, you lot leave us no pick. Because y'all clearly consider the profits of large business to be of more importance than the health of our pets, we have no option but to avoid all pet foods and treats that include any by-product, creature fat, meat and bone meal, beef and bone meal, and animal digest ingredient. Because AAFCO regulations practice not provide a clear definition of human class ingredients, because FDA doesn't enforce existing Federal laws that should prevent anything less than human grade ingredients into pet food, both organizations further the bully split betwixt pet owners and trust of pet food.

Read the ingredients of every food, treat, or chew you lot provide your pet. Unless you wish to feed your dog or cat a rendered dog or cat, or unless you wish to feed your pet numerous chemical residue contaminants, avoid pet foods, treats, and chews that incorporate any of the following ingredients…

Animal Fatty
By-Products (any variation)
Meat and Os meal (non meat specific meal such as craven meal, turkey repast, lamb repast)
Beef and Bone repast
Animal Digest

Wishing yous and your pet(south) the all-time,

Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author, Heir-apparent Beware
Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
TruthaboutPetFood.com
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