Pentobarbital, a euthanasia drug for pets, is still being found in some pet foods. Why? Because government-run pet shelters dispose of euthanized pets by turning them into protein meal, and that often makes its way into cheap pet food.
117 2017-05-03 by [deleted]
“At some time or another pet food companies realized there was a cheap source of meat available… Dog Meat, and it could be purchased cheaply from animal shelters and the dog pound. These were places where dogs were euthanized weekly and there was always a need to dispose of the bodies. Nobody said anything and there were no laws preventing such from happening. However what started to tip the scales was that the veterinarians who performed the euthanasias at the animal shelters started noticing it was taking more and more drugs to put these animals to sleep. They realized that somehow pets in animal shelters were building up an immunity to the medications used to end their lives."
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/05/02/euthanasia-drug-found-in-dog-food/
No pet lover in their right mind would ever wish to feed their dog or cat ground up dog and cat. But that is exactly what is happening. Deep within the EPA document ‘Emissions Factors and Policy Applications Center, Chapter 9: Food and Agricultural Industries, Section 9.5 Introduction to Animal & Meat Products Preparation’ is the section 9.5.3 Meat Rendering Plants. The truth is crystal clear.
“Meat rendering plants process animal by-product materials for the production of tallow, grease, and high-protein meat and bone meal. Plants that operate in conjunction with animal slaughterhouses or poultry processing plants are called integrated rendering plants. Plants that collect their raw materials from a variety of offsite sources are called independent rendering plants. Independent plants obtain animal by-product materials, including grease, blood, feathers, offal, and entire animal carcasses, from the following sources: butcher shops, supermarkets, restaurants, fast-food chains, poultry processors, slaughterhouses, farms, ranches, feedlots, and animal shelters.”
https://truthaboutpetfood.com/epa-document-proves-euthanized-dogs-and-cats-are-rendered/
Old article, with a WTF silent video of a rendering plant.
https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-industry-exposed/dogs-meat-meal/
19 comments
n/a usernamenn 2017-05-03
Horrifying. Poses the question of what else they are willing to do. (answer: anything) Thanks for posting.
n/a errantdashingseagull 2017-05-03
lol.
Nothing to see here, just the mechanized imprisonment, torture, and death of millions of animals a year.
Buh gawd, fetch the pitchforks! These monsters must be stopped!
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
I understand your point, fully. The issue here, however, is not that pets are being used for animal feed, per se, but that animals should never be fed diseased members of their own species. Prion diseases affect many species, prions are not destroyed in the rendering process, and there is evidence that prions can cross species despite previous beliefs of the scientific community.
Animal prion diseases include scrapie of sheep and goats, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, transmissible mink encephalopathy, feline spongiform encephalopathy, exotic ungulate spongiform encephalopathy, chronic wasting disease of cervids and spongiform encephalopathy of primates.
Prions transmitted to housecats by feeding them dead housecats can be transmitted into mountain lions when they come into rural areas for a snack, for example.
n/a redditeditard 2017-05-03
Yeah, about to only buy meat from a farm I can meet the animals at. I still can't afford private dairy or eggs, though.
n/a notacrackheadofficer 2017-05-03
There's an amazing documentary about a pet cemetery and the rendering industry.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077598/
Roger Ebert going over the top with praise:
''They form the truth at the center of Errol Morris' 1978 documentary, which is surrounded by layer upon layer of comedy, pathos, irony, and human nature. I have seen this film perhaps 30 times, and am still not anywhere near the bottom of it: All I know is, it's about a lot more than pet cemeteries.''
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-gates-of-heaven-1978
n/a blukami 2017-05-03
I remember back in the 90's that a certain highend brand was using any downed animals as protein base in their pet food.
It was found out after a series of pet deaths, both cat and dog, and something about cow feed too if I remember right. Basically your animals were eating sick cows, poultry, or pig, as well as pets that were euthanized. This apparently was spreading several diseases and drugs, I think it was called one of the causes prion disease "Mad cow"
n/a sweetholymosiah 2017-05-03
hate to be that guy... but is it a conspiracy? or just negative repercussions of reckless behaviour?
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
When the FDA knows that drugs used to kill animals in shelters can enter the human food supply via protien meal used to make chicken feed, yet looks the other way, I think it starts edging into conspiracy territory.
n/a wilzmcgee 2017-05-03
Makes me think of those videos about selling aborted fetuses. I bet they're selling it for something other than research.
n/a SmarkoftheTiles 2017-05-03
The problem is what exactly?
Pet food is fairly transparent in its quality once you learn how to read ingredient lists. Majority of it is complete garbage.
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
Prions from diseased animals which cannot be destroyed by the rendering process is the problem. Animals should not eat dead members of their own species.
Also, this protein meal contaminated with the drugs used to kill animals in shelters is often used to make chicken feed, and it cycles back into the human food supply in that manner.
n/a PKMN_Master_Red 2017-05-03
This is why you don't buy Purina/Alpo/the cheapest shit you can get. If you can't afford a pet, you shouldn't fucking have one. We give every kind of PERSON imaginable (white/black/man/woman/gay/straight/trans/murderers/pedos/etcetera) basically unlimited rights yet the smartest animals in the world (dogs/dolphins/whales/elephants/etcetera) are treated like garbage by the majority of humans still.
Look at the ingredients before you buy ANYTHING. Research them. Don't just buy shit because it's cheap and blame circumstances in your control for it.
n/a dirtydanisreal 2017-05-03
So soilent green is pets?
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
No, Soilent green is people.
I'm going to assume that Walmart brand "Ol' Roy" is pets, among others.
n/a onetimerone 2017-05-03
It would be nice to think there is an ethical line that would prevent someone from feeding humans something nefarious to boost profits but coming from the fortune 100 I expect that their slipping me something nasty as well as my dog.
n/a OB1_kenobi 2017-05-03
Basically animal cannibalism. Aside from being disgusting, it's also unhealthy.
I think this is how some diseases get started and spread around. One sick dog gets euthanized and the dogs that eat the food made from it can (in the right circumstances) catch it's diseases.
One example? Prions. Those are the things that cause mad cow disease. Not sure if there's a dog equivalent. But stuff like this is the reason why you don't feed animals food made out of the same animals.
n/a anunknind 2017-05-03
Well, luckily you have to ingest prion infected brain tissue to contract spongiform encephalopathy, and I'm sure that they don't ground up the brains of dead dogs into their food. ...Oh wait, these people are evil maniacs making a quick buck. Of course they do! :(
n/a hotdogsfromchicago 2017-05-03
Soylent Green
n/a Beaver_Taint 2017-05-03
That is about as evil and disgusting as it can get. Damn
n/a knife-nerd 2017-05-03
Ok this is a dumb conspiracy.
Why?
Its a million percent cheaper to grind up corn and use that as filler, and you can avoid having to have a conspiracy as a side benefit.
Occam's Razor and whatnot.
n/a Loud_Volume 2017-05-03
Oh hey look something you type actually made sense. Great job. I was beginning to think you were close minded ;) especially given our interactions in regards to satanic sex rings you keep brushing off and monarch MKUltra mind control. But hey atleast you believe in the pet products conspiracy, it's a start in the right direction
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
I completely agree with you about the nondigestible carbohydrates added to pet foods. That is indeed another very important, but completely different conspiracy.
Uhm... What? You appear to be one if those folks that is confused about the definition of conspiracy.
People on this sub discussing this issue, or 9/11, or wretched things that politicians do but try to hide... None of that can be labeled "conspiracy".
As it says in the sidebar:
Conspiracy - a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
You might think that this is a dumb conspiracy theory, but it is pretty obvious that the FDA knows that pentobarbital is making its way not only into pet food supplies, but into human food supplies, and THAT is the conspiracy.
n/a LooshFarmEscapee 2017-05-03
No, Soilent green is people.
I'm going to assume that Walmart brand "Ol' Roy" is pets, among others.
n/a onetimerone 2017-05-03
It would be nice to think there is an ethical line that would prevent someone from feeding humans something nefarious to boost profits but coming from the fortune 100 I expect that their slipping me something nasty as well as my dog.