There are hundreds of Rendering Plants in the United States and they process millions of tons of dead, dying, diseased and disabled animals, fat and meat waste.

What is commonly found in rendering plants?In a Rendering Plant, you would see animals in various states such as disabled, diseased, dying, dead and decaying. These animals include skunks, snakes, opossums, cats, dogs, circus animals, raccoons, horses and foxes. Furthermore, Rendering Plants process billions of pounds of decaying flesh and kitchen grease, obtained mainly from fast food restaurants, into commercial meat and bone meal, tallow and yellow grease where much of it ends up in commercial pet foods.Rendering Plants sell their products to cat and dog food companies as well as cosmetic companies. Yet they claim that by removing dead and decaying animals from our city streets, they are doing a public service and not doing it for profits.A peek inside a Rendering PlantA look inside a Rendering Plant in California revealed A floor piled high with “Raw products” – thousands of dead dogs and cats, heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, whole skunks, rats and raccoons – all waiting to be processed. In the 90-degree-heat, the pile of dead animals seems to have a life of their own as millions of maggots swarm over the carcasses.It’s as if you are witnessing a nightmare as you hear popping bones, squeezing flesh and the cries of the not yet dead animals as the poor souls emit their final sounds of agony as they face their final curtain.From this process, a fat of yellow grease or tallow is produced and skimmed off. At a hammer mill press, the remaining moisture is squeezed out and pulverized into a gritty powder. After bones and hair are removed, all that’s left are meat, bone meal and yellow grease.Every day of the week, Rendering Plants truck millions of tons of their products to manufacturers that put it into cosmetics and animal feed that ends up in pet food products and since humans eat meat, it can end up on our tables.Are your pets benefiting from these ingredients?Products labeled as meat meal, meat by-products, poultry meal, Poultry by-products, fish meal, fish oil, yellow grease, tallow, beef fat and chicken fat all are products of Rendering Plants.If 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.Heavy metals from pet ID tags, surgical pins and needles as well as plastic wrap from supermarket rejected meat, chicken and fish. According to Rendering Plant officials, it’s not economically feasible to have someone at the Rendering Plants to remove the ID tags, Styrofoam trays and shrink wrap. So they all go into the mix that becomes part of your pet food.It’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.The 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.All 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. Why 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.There 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.