“Fresno County declares emergency as cow carcasses pile up. Plant to temporarily close” and “Merced County declares an emergency, as cattle carcasses pile up from rendering plant issue.” It’s just (…) Read more
Posts in Category ‘Pet Food Rendering’
Pet Food Rendering Plant Makes People Want to Puke and Has Children Run Screaming For Cover
A pet food rendering plant in Quebec has residents reaching for the barf bag every time they go out of doors, describing the stench as something akin to “vomit times (…) Read more
Eating the Dead: Pet Food Only a Zombie Could Love; The Circular Madness of Upcycling Dead, Dying, and Diseased Animals into Food for Animals
Have you ever wondered, before you tuck into that BLT, what the pig you’re eating used to eat? Considering the animal feed industry is poised to start using fly larvae (…) Read more
Encyclopedia of Sh*t You Don’t Want to Know About, But Should: The Pet Food Industry Edition
It is not uncommon in my line of work, while digging around for information, to unearth some – how shall I put it – pretty unsavory tidbits. Being somewhat used (…) Read more
Barf Bags de Rigueur for Residents Near Rendering Plant in Rochester NY That Cooks Up Ingredients for Pet Food
When people drive through Rochester New York for the first time, they usually remark how lovely it is. That is, until they roll the windows down. When they do, they (…) Read more
Pet Food Industry’s Darkest Secret: Chemically Denatured Condemned and Inedible Material
You’ll never see it listed on a pet food package. Yet, it is in nearly every single brand of pet food on the market. What is it? It’s not an (…) Read more
Diamond pet food plant smells like freshly roasted ass
Often, as I read about a pet food plant that neighbors complain emits the smell of freshly roasted ass, I wonder: Why is that? All sarcasm aside, I know the (…) Read more
Stench From Valley Proteins’ Rendering Plant Causes Writer to Wonder, “What We’re Feeding Dogs.”
People who live in Fayetteville, North Carolina, near the Valley Proteins rendering plant describe the misery of living with the suffocating stench that emanates from the plant. “There is stink, (…) Read more
A Rare Look Inside a Rendering Plant; Shocking First Hand Account
Rarely do we get a first-hand account of the secret world behind the walls of rendering plants where animal feed and pet food ingredients are made, giving us a glimpse (…) Read more
What’s a Dead Truck? Hint: It’s Has to Do With Pet Food.
Man with an iron stomach In a four part series, on Discovery Channel’s show Dirty Jobs, we are taken on fascinating, albeit gruesome, look into the unsung laborers who make (…) Read more
