The Rendering Process for Pet Food Manufacturing

Before I began learning about what goes into commercial pet foods, I knew nothing about rendering plants or how product for pet food was manufactured.  Rendering facilities have been around for hundreds of years, yet the general public kows little about the industry.  And I am sure that most people do not know that a lot of the by-product created by rendering plants ends up in commercial pet food.
Renderers accept the waste and leftovers from our society.  This includes animals picked up by dead stock removal companies; dead zoo animals; roadkill too large to be buried at the side of the road; restaurant and grocery store garbage, including the styrofoam trays and plastic wrap; and hundreds of thousands of euthanized cats and dogs.
Slaughterhouses also provide renderers with the leftovers from slaughtered animals not fit for human consumption.  Before these animals parts and by-products used for pet food are shipped from the slaughterhouse to the rendering plant, the by-product is "denatured". This means that crude carbolic acid, cresylic disinfectant, or citronella, is sprayed on the product.  In the case of a whole beef or swine carcass that has been condemned, the denaturing product is injected into the entire carcass.
As quoted by: Ann N. Martin (Author of Food Pets Die For).

AND WE WONDER WHY OUR PETS ARE SICK AND DIE AT AN EARLIER AGE.  PETS SHOULD LIVE TO APPROX. 23 AND YET THEIR LIFE SPAN IS USUALLY AROUND 16.

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