Millions of tons of dead, diseased, dying, disabled and decaying animals, meat waste and fat are processed at Rendering Plants across the U.S.

What is commonly found in rendering plants?

It's not uncommon, in a rendering plant, to find such dead animals as; skunks, snakes, opossums, cat, dogs, circus animals, raccoons, horses and foxes. In addition, the Rendering Plants also transforms billions of pounds of decaying flesh and kitchen grease, from mainly fast food restaurants, into billions of pounds of commercial meat and bone meal, tallow and yellow grease and much of it ends up in commercial pet foods.

Rendering Plants claim that although they sell their products to various companies including pet food companies and cosmetic companies, they are doing it as a public service and not for profits.

A peek inside a Rendering Plant

Various animals in all types of conditions lay in piles awaiting their turn to be added to the mixture as swarms of maggots can be seen all over the piles. This is what you would witness inside of a Rendering Plant.

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.

All types of p;aces from poultry farms to cattle feed lots, dairy and hog farms to fish feed plants and pet food manufacturers purchase this goo and mix it with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals that meat-eating humans, in turn, will eat.

How can your pets possibly be benefiting from these products

Don't you think that your pet deserves better than to be fed ingredients from Rendering Plants? So now you know what to do when you see labels on your pet food with ingredients such as; beef and chicken fat, poultry by-products, fish meal, tallow, yellow grease, meat meal or meat by-products - avoid them.

Pets are shoved into the pit with flea collars still attached. The insecticide Dursban arrives in the form of cattle insecticide patches. Euthanized drugs given to pets and pharmaceuticals leak from antibiotics in livestock are also included.

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 not unfair to conclude that without Rendering Plants, U.S. cities could be filled with diseased and rotting carcasses. Diseases and bacteria could infect the population but the big question is; is it safe for pet food manufacturers to use products from Rendering Plants in our pet foods?

In the final analysis, we have to understand that Rendering Plants produce products that are toxic to our pets. The drug Sodium Phenobarbital is used to euthanize pets of all type. This drug is not destroyed in the rendering process; therefore the product produced by the Rendering Plants that go into our pet foods contains sodium Phenobarbital.

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.

They consistently produce pet foods that are killing our pets and millions of pet owners continue to buy their products and feed it to their pets. Pet owners have refused to invest the time to discover what goes into a bag of their cats' or other pet food.

You must realize that you are, in fact, sentencing your pet to a premature and painful death. Yes, I'm speaking to all you pet owners that purchase the commercial pet foods. Because of your failure to learn what goes into the foods you feed your pets, the commercial pet food industry capitalizes on that and while pet owners spend billions of dollars buying this cheap and toxic foods, your pets die prematurely and the pet food companies laugh all the way to the banks.