EXCERPTS: Government Doc on Rendering -2004 report to Congress-Shows animals from SHELTERS and *OTHER Facilities* go into rendering

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Thought this might interest some who would like further proof that dead pets go into the pet foods, even if just in the form of *topping*  YUK !  This was put out in 2004, but there is no reason to believe that anything as changed, even after the recall of 2007~ !

I put up the link to the  .pdf document on my site if anyone is looking for it later on.  You will find it under Pet Foods> Rendering Board.

But, here are a few excerpts which shows that *animals from SHELTERS and *OTHER FACILITIES* ) are put into rendering and the link to the original download.   (Direct link to pdf document download is at end of excerpts)

FROM Government documents -
Animal Rendering:Economics and Policy
Geoffrey S. Becker
Specialist in Agricultural Policy
Resources, Science, and Industry Division

Industry Overview
Renderers annually convert 47 billion pounds or more of raw animal materials into
approximately 18 billion pounds of products.  Sources for these materials include meat
slaughtering and processing plants (the primary one); dead animals from farms, ranches,
feedlots, marketing barns, animal shelters, and other facilities; and fats, grease, and other
food waste from restaurants and stores.  <SNIP>

Independent operations handle the other 30%-35% of rendered material.  These
plants (estimated by NRA at 165 in the United States and Canada) usually collect material
from other sites using specially designed trucks.  They pick up and process fat and bone
trimmings, inedible meat scraps, blood, feathers, and dead animals from meat and poultry
slaughterhouses and processors (usually smaller ones without their own rendering
operations), farms, ranches, feedlots, animal shelters, restaurants, butchers, and markets.
As a result, the majority of independents are likely to be handling "mixed species."
Almost all of the resulting ingredients are destined for nonhuman consumption (e.g.,
animal feeds, industrial products).  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
regulates animal feed ingredients, but its continuous presence in rendering plants, or in
feed mills that buy rendered ingredients, is not a legal requirement.  <SNIP>

Other rendering systems are used,including those that recover protein solids from slaughterhouse blood or that process used restaurant grease.  This restaurant grease generally is recovered (often in 55-gallon drums)  for use as yellow grease in non-human food products like animal feeds.    <SNIP>

SOURCE:  The 2004 report to Congress is found in the library of Congressional Research Service.  Link to download document http://digital.library.unt.edu/govdocs/.

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