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Posts in Category ‘Ethics of Pet Food’

Chances are the chicken in your pet food came from this horrific poultry processing plant

A rendering plant owned by Pilgrim’s Pride has been busted once again for violating multiple environmental laws, and this time the charges expose, in graphic detail, the method for processing (…) Read more

  • September 28, 2011
  • Comment 1
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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New, eco-friendly use for pet food ingredients discovered! Or how to turn rotting meat into plastic in 5 easy steps!

Unlike most boys his age, when Professor Bressler was a little boy he dreamed of one day creating an environmentally-friendly plastic from cow guts. Blessed with a strong stomach and (…) Read more

  • August 24, 2011
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food

Did you know your chicken sandwich used to feel empathy?

Don’t you just hate it when people guilt trip you about your food choices? I do! Crimeny, if I had a nickel for every time my Mom said, “Jesus, Moll, (…) Read more

  • May 5, 2011
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food, Pet Food News
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Poultry farmers motto: Use everything but the cluck

There’s a saying popular with the poultry industry crowd: “We recycle everything but the cluck!” Depending on your view of recycling that could be considered a good thing, but I (…) Read more

  • May 1, 2011
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  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food, Pet Food News

Could Cheap Pet Foods Make Pets Dumb and Dumber?

After reading a study that posed a similar question for children fed a diet of junk food, I couldn’t help immediately extrapolating that evidence to include animals. Scientists found that (…) Read more

  • February 11, 2011
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  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food

Safe Meat and Factory Farming: A Contradiction in Terms

Safe Meat A Letter to the Editor of the New York Times To the Editor: Mark Bittman wants to outlaw confined livestock feeding operations because, he says, they harm the (…) Read more

  • February 9, 2011
  • Comments 6
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food

Consuming Tragedy: Eating Veal

Comments Requested on Disabled Livestock Policy The U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is requesting comments on two petitions for rulemaking submitted to the agency by (…) Read more

  • February 9, 2011
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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The Alchemy of Waste: The Transformation of Garbage Into a Billion Dollar Empire

The horrifying reality of the animal feed industry is that, with few exceptions, the ingredients used to make it are primarily derived from the waste materials left over from food (…) Read more

  • November 23, 2010
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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Euthanized Animals; It’s What’s for Fluffy and Fido’s Dinner

Maybe you’ve heard the horrors stories, the rumors, that dog food contains euthanized animals – maybe even dogs and cats. The fear, that the food you feed your pets might (…) Read more

  • October 27, 2010
  • Comments 3
  • Filed under: Ethics of Pet Food
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