I read that cattle are fed rendered remains of dead animals -including euthanized cats, dogs, & roadkill.?

Question

I've been looking on the internet for valid proof - but the sources ive found were pro-vegetarian sites. Does anyone know where i could find other sites that backs up this claim?

Answer 1

If it makes the steaks tender and juicy - I don't care what a cow is fed................

Answer 2

Euthanized cats and dogs are typically incinerated, not rendered.   I have a friend who interned at a vet's office, and another who worked in a prison downwind from an ASPCA facility where dead animals were incinerated.   Plus, I've researched the incinerators that are used in vets offices.

I suspect that most roadkill is disposed of the same way all trash is disposed of - in a landfill.  At least, the landfills that I know have a list of codes that they use for different types of waste - and one of those codes is for dead animal disposal.

What are indeed rendered are typically livestock that are unfit for human consumption - chickens that die in the coop, downed cows and goats, that sort of thing.  And yes, rendered fat can be used as pet food.

At least, this is my understanding.  You might improve your web search in two ways.  First, use very professional terminology - veterinary disposal, for example.  Second, try to find out what happens to roadkill, rather than whether or not it is rendered.  So search on "dead wildlife disposal" instead of "roadkill rendering."

Of course, what we are talking about is how animals are legally disposed of.  I'm sure that there are a few rogue rendering facilities out there that take anything.  But those would be a tiny exception, not the rule.

Good luck.

Answer 3

there are some horrific things going on in the animal world that is managed by people

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download the movie Earthlings,all the things you  do not want to know but that are going on.

Answer 4

There is no way this is happening now(maybe previously).  Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (prion disease's).   Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is probably the one most have hear of  by its common name mad cow disease.  There are forms of TSE's that effect cows, cats, deer, elk, sheep, goats, etc.  And the possibility of species to species transmission though ingestion of neurological tissue among others.  The largest cases were in the UK due to animal byproduct feeds. In the US, soybean is plentiful and cost almost nothing.  In 1997, there was laws passed against feeding animal byproducts to cows and goats but there i currently no resrtcitons on feeding hte byproduct to pets or other livestock

Answer 5

I doubt that they are fed cats and dogs, but possibly other farm animals.  When we buy meat, we are buying flesh full of pesticides, dye, hormones, other animals...it's disgusting that we give our money to these criminals.  

Isn't it funny that you are even asking that question?  And people are answering honestly.

Answer 6

Well, that seems to be an exaggeration, I would double check your source on that fact.  But cattle do need a source of protein, that of which can not be found by grazing alone.  Small amount of meat are placed into their feed, but not roadkill.  Roadkill is most often used as fertilizer for gardens. Not kidding!  There are companies that collect roadkill from county utility companies and bury the animal so that it can decompose.  The mixture is then sold to mulch, manure, and garden fertilizer companies to be sold at retail stores.

Answer 7

I can't vouch for it but--My understanding is that cows were feed other cows --that were mixed into their feed.

This is one of the main reasons for MAD COW DISEASE in ENGLAND--it has since been discontinued

But you might want to do some research on it yourself