IN A NUTSHELL FOR THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE TO DO RESEARCH AND READ EVERY POST : )
From National Renderers Association
PET FOOD
Globally, in 2005, pet food and products were a $53 billion industry—and the market is growing. In the United States, dog and cat food sales alone account for $14.5 billion with exports of nearly $1 billion.
Rendered protein meals such as meat and bone meal, poultry by-product meal, and fish meal are almost universally used in pet foods. Generally, they provide high quality protein with a good balance of amino acids.
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http://nationalrenderers.org/assets/ess ... t_food.pdf
written by Greg Aldrich, Ph.D., President of Pet Food and Ingredient Technology, Inc.
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Fluffy is in the pets foods
Herschell Pensdall, president of AAFCO in 1999 was asked if rendered products were allowed in pet foods ! In response to the interviewer he said, there is no written regulation or law prohibiting it.
Then when asked if we can tell from the labels what is really in the food, he readily admits rather casually, that *fluffy* goes in pet foods along with cattle, sheep horses etc.
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Valley Proteins Rendering Plant
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BALTIMORE CITY NEWSPAPER
Valley Proteins/Animal Rendering Story Published Sept. 25, 1995
Since the original publication of this article in 1995, the Valley Proteins rendering plant in Curtis Bay, Baltimore, has become somewhat famous. Pet food activists around the globe, concerned about the article's disclosure that the plant at that time recycled dead pets from the city animal shelter into raw materials for dry pet food, continue to use the story to urge changes in the pet food industry--or at least in the buying patterns of consumers. And lawyers defending talk-show host Oprah Winfrey against libel charges brought by ranchers in Texas found the article--and the author's testimony--useful in successfully proving their case during the 1998 trial in Amarillo. Facts in the article, and in photographs taken for the story, showed the jury that allegedly libelous statements about rendering practices made on her show by rancher-turned-activist Howard Lyman were, in fact, substantially true.
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Rendering Unto Oprah- How Dead Pets, Bad Brains .......
SOURCE:
BALTIMORE CITY PAPER
How Dead Pets, Bad Brains, and Free Speech Landed Me in Amarillo By Van Smith
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We were at once aghast, amused, and skeptical. "No, really, it's true," they said blandly, sensing our doubts. "We pick up dead pets from the SPCA and take them to the plant. The plant cooks up the carcasses and other things to make stuff that goes into pet food. Honest." <SNIP>
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<SNIP> I visited Earl Watson, then the director of the Baltimore City Animal Shelter, and discovered that the city pays Valley Proteins, a rendering company with a plant in Curtis Bay, to cart off its euthanized pets and road kill.<SNIP>
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<SNIP> Among other things, the story established that dead pets and road kill are part of the raw-materials mix at Valley Proteins' Curtis Bay plant for meat-and-bone meal, some of which is sold to pet-food manufacturers. <SNIP>
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<SNIP> Amid all of this, in March 1996, another wrinkle was added to what I knew about the rendering biz. The British government announced 10 people had died from new-variant Cruetzfeld-Jacobs disease (nvCJD), a human form of mad-cow disease. I soon learned that I had missed a very important point about rendering in "Meltdown": infected meat-and-bone meal caused the spread of mad-cow disease in Great Britain. And now the disease appeared to be crossing the species line into humans. Suddenly rendering seemed to be an inadvertently insidious industry tied to a mysterious medical threat, not a sensible and profitable recycling measure, as I had previously reported. (In July of last year I made up for this oversight with another article, "Bad Brains: Maryland's Role in the Mystery of Cannibal Brains, Mad Cows, and an Emerging Food Scare.") <SNIP>
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<SNIP> Enter Oprah. On the April 16, 1996, broadcast of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Humane Society's Howard Lyman, a former rancher turned food-safety advocate, declared that U.S. rendering practices are just like Britain's, so one mad cow unwittingly rendered into feed for other cattle could cause an outbreak here just as it did there. Voluntary precautions the U.S. rendering industry had taken to prevent an outbreak in this country weren't working, he said. And he pointed out that pets and road kill enter the cattle-feed mix. <SNIP>
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I could go on........ with articles from the FDA and others, but many are already listed here on this board below or above this post you are reading now. So, if you want more proof, you can read them if you choose ...... I just did this little summery for those who do not have tons of time to read everything and pick things out.
