Weblog Entry - 11/14/2002: "Someone else's pet is in your pet's food"

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11/14/2002 "Someone else's pet is in your pet's food"

Well, how do they sink to this level and still look human?
Animal Protection Institute - What's Really in Pet Food
Warning To Anyone Who Doubts Their Pet "Food"
Cattle with cancerous growths, wildlife remains and other leftovers from butcher shops, the grease from fast food restaurants; all are sent to "rendering companies". Eventually they become animal food and when ingested by your pet, they add to the toxins in the pet's bloodstream.
Pesticides such as DDT degrade very slowly in the body, so they accumulates in the fat and muscles of animals.
Example: a one pound charcoal-broiled steak contains 4 - 5 micrograms of benzopyrene; an amount equal to the amount of a person would receive from smoking approximately 300 cigarettes. During the cooking process, fat from the meat drips into the charcoal which also produces benzopyrene and those toxins transfer back up into the meat.

CWD cannot be "cooked out" of venison, even at 2,500 degrees. The meat that is cut closer to the bone, (whether CWD or Mad Cow) is meat where the disease is the most toxic. Rendering plants use bones, brains, everything.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently prohibited "rendering companies" from using the remains of Deer & Elk in Animal Feed if infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) .
Of course, since most animals are not tested, the rendering plants will undoubtedly be using animals with CWD and other diseases as well. They always have used diseased animals. Whatever provides the most profit.
Even though the FDA is attempting to protect Companion Animals in the United States, we will never know if any CWD diseased "remains" accidentally are blended with pet food. Would you feel safe eating even two or three meals tainted with CWD? Your animal may be eating it regularly.
This is an important issue to monitor for our Animal Companion's future.
There are alternatives to purchasing Dog & Cat Food. There are recipes that you can cook to replace commercial pet food instead of taking the risk of not knowing what's in pet food. Dog recipe's can be vegetarian. Unfortunately, cats must have meat.
Sincerely,
Rex Stuart (posted by President/The Non-hunters' Rights Coalition on 11/22/2002)
Petition to demand standards in pet food.
"the report on what is in pet food.

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