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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 dioxide to avoid planetary catastrophe. The bill, The Inflation Reduction Act, aims to substantially expand federal support for alternative and sustainable fuels like renewable diesel production. In a statement, President…
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How Plastic Will End Up in Everything You And Your Pets Eat. Sorry, But it’s True.
A stunning, and deeply troubling, report published in the journal Science Advances, scientists are finding tiny pieces of plastic, in organic fertilizer made from food waste. Microscopic fragments of plastic are showing up all over the world, floating in the ocean, buried in soil, in food, and in animal feed. In a complex interrelationship of food production, the natural environment…
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Plans to Extract Chicken Sh*t and Use It to Make Pet Food are Being Cooked Up Right Now
Just when you think the pet food industry can’t stoop any lower – they do. This time, plans are in place to recycle poultry industry sludge into – you guessed it – pet food. The plan is to develop a “novel recycling operation,” just south of the Wilmington Delaware, upcycling poultry sludge into proteins and fats from poultry processing wastewater sludge…
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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 are assaulted by a stench that some say is bad enough to gag a maggot. If you ask the locals, they’ll tell you they’ve had to put up with the…
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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 their living doing the unthinkable: Working at a rendering plant. The show, with its intrepid host Mike Rowe, takes us through the ghastly work involved in rendering a cow. The…
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Wait – Chicken Sh*t In Food Is a Homeland Security Issue?
The identity of companies that use recycled animal waste in animal food is classified information, says the United States government. A request for information on which companies use recycled animal waste, better known a plain ol’ poop, in animal food production, was denied by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) citing homeland security issues. Who knew that such having such information…
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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 manufactured for humans. All the expired grocery store waste, slaughterhouse waste, poultry litter, liquified, decaying, rancid, and moldy garbage not considered fit for human consumption, is all conveniently diverted from…
