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
Posts Tagged ‘rendering’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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