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Posts Tagged ‘rendering’

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The Pet Food Institute Is Fighting to Remove Incentives That Fight Climate Change

The Senate passed a historic climate bill this week at a time when scientists warn that nations have only a few remaining years to make deep enough cuts in carbon (…) Read more

  • August 11, 2022
  • Comments 0
  • Filed under: Politics of Pet Food
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How a Pile Up of Dead Cows Led to the Discovery of What’s In Pet Food. And It’s Much Worse Than You Think.

“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

  • March 15, 2020
  • Comments 8
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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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

  • July 8, 2016
  • Comments 6
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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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

  • July 1, 2016
  • Comments 3
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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Condemned, Inedible Meat & Poultry: It’s What’s in Pet Food

I know what you’re thinking: Not another alarmist pet food report. Stop with those stories already. Can’t you just tell me what’s a good pet food to buy, Mollie? Oh, (…) Read more

  • March 7, 2016
  • Comments 16
  • Filed under: Pet Food Regulations
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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

  • February 28, 2016
  • Comments 10
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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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

  • February 17, 2014
  • Comments 15
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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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

  • January 25, 2014
  • Comments 4
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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City Sues Evanger’s Pet Food Plant for Putrid Stench of Rotting Meat, Maggots, Waste, Open Sewers

Evanger’s Dog and Cat Food Co. ongoing legal drama continued Thursday when the Illinois pet food manufacturer filed a complaint over their objection to paying a fine they received for (…) Read more

  • December 17, 2012
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  • Filed under: Pet Food

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

  • December 5, 2012
  • Comments 5
  • Filed under: Pet Food Rendering
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