Millions of tons of dead, diseased, dying, disabled and decaying animals, meat waste and fat are processed at Rendering Plants across the U.S.nnWhat do you think you would see in Rendering Plants?nnIt\'s not uncommon, in a rendering plant, to find such dead animals as; skunks, snakes, opossums, cat, dogs, circus animals, raccoons, horses and foxes. In addition, the Rendering Plants also transforms billions of pounds of decaying flesh and kitchen grease, from mainly fast food restaurants, into billions of pounds of commercial meat and bone meal, tallow and yellow grease and much of it ends up in commercial pet foods.nnRendering Plants claim that although they sell their products to various companies including pet food companies and cosmetic companies, they are doing it as a public service and not for profits. nnA peek inside a Rendering PlantnnInside a Rendering Plant, there is a large vat used to cook this mixture of flesh and grease and that creates heat to the tune of about 90% inside the plant. There are piles of animals awaiting their turn to be added to the vat. The piles of skunks, rats, cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs, cats, raccoons and various other animals seem to take on a life of their own as maggots swarm all over the piles.nnAs workers operating mini dozers load the animals into a 10-foot-deep stainless steel pit also known as a vat, a giant auger-grinder begins to turn. The sounds of popping bone, squeezing flesh and the final cries can be heard.nnYellow grease or tallow that\'s produced by this process are skimmed off and sent to a hammer mill press where the remainder of moisture is removed and the final product is pulverized into a gritty powder. A shaker then removes excess bone and hair so all you have left are bone meal, yellow grease and meat.nnEvery day, hundreds of Rendering Plants across the U.S. truck millions of tons of this \"food enhancer\" to poultry ranches, cattle feed-lots, dairy and hog farms, fish feed plants and pet food manufacturers where it is mixed with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals that meat-eating humans, in turn, will eat.nnDo you think your pets are benefiting from these products?nnWhen you see ingredients on your pet food products labeled as; meat meal, meat by-products, poultry by-products, fish meal, fish oil, yellow grease, tallow, beef fat and chicken fat, now you know their origin. They all are produced at Rendering Plants.nnIf you think that\'s all of the bad stuff that goes into your pet foods - think again. There are fles collars from dogs, cats and other pets, euthanized drugs used to put down pets, Dursban from cattle insecticide patches and pharmaceutical leaks from antibiotics in livestock.nnIn spite of the fact that heavy metals from pets\' ID tags, surgical pins and needles, plastic wrap from supermarket rejected meat, chicken and fish, according to Rendering Plant officials, they would incur too much cost to remove ID tags, Styrofoam trays and shrink wrap so that too becomes part of your pet food.nnIt\'s fair to say that without Rendering Plants, our cities would run the risk of becoming filled with diseased and rotting carcasses. Fatal viruses and bacteria would spread through the population but it\'s not safe for pet food manufacturers to use products produced at Rendering Plants.nnThe products that Rendering Plants produce are toxic to our pets. The rendering process does not destroy the drug used to euthanize our pets called Sodium Phenobarbital. Therefore this drug goes into our pet foods.nnAll pet owners want is food for our four-legged friends that is wholesome, nutritional and free of toxic ingredients. The pet food companies have proven they are not going to do that. nnWhy is it that we as pet owners refuse to invest the time needed to find out what is really in a bag of commercial pet food? Pet food companies will continue to produce pet foods that are killing our pets until we start making informed decisions.nnThere is something that all of you pet owners should realize, you are sentencing your pet to a premature and painful death. Yes, I\'m speaking to you if you are one of millions of pet owners buying and feeding your pet commercial pet food. Simply put, if you fail to take time to discover what goes into the food that your pet eats the commercial pet food industry will capitalize on that and our pets will continue to to die prematurely and the makers of this food will continue to laugh all the way to the bank.
