Thank you very much for those links LPC.
I have read a lot about this awful practice before, and have been aware of it since about 2008! I am shocked utterly to see that it is still going on! Apart from the danger of pentobarbital in the euthanised companion animals, putting that rendered meat in cat and dog food means the companies are forcing our dogs and cats to be cannibals! How can they even dream up such a thing??
Plus, a large percentage of meat obtained from such sources is by its very nature -diseased!
The reports I found concerned some pet foods and practices in the US.
I remember -back about 2008, researching as much as I could about ingredients in commercial pet foods in the UK. As far as I could discover, there were no euthanised companion animals in the meat. However horse meat is/was used, presumably from horses who have been slaughtered/euthanised without pentobarbital.
Ingredients such as "animal fats", "meat", "animal by-products" etc, in the small print on labelling confuse us further because for some reason the "animal" is not specified, and the manufacturer doesn't wish to specify....
That always sets me to thinking!
Also, everything is so 'global' nowadays, and a manufacturer could buy from a supplier in another country in order to cut down costs. That supplier can -and has been known to do, even concerning human grade food! -deliberately mis-label the product.
I have read a lot about this awful practice before, and have been aware of it since about 2008! I am shocked utterly to see that it is still going on! Apart from the danger of pentobarbital in the euthanised companion animals, putting that rendered meat in cat and dog food means the companies are forcing our dogs and cats to be cannibals! How can they even dream up such a thing??
Plus, a large percentage of meat obtained from such sources is by its very nature -diseased!
The reports I found concerned some pet foods and practices in the US.
I remember -back about 2008, researching as much as I could about ingredients in commercial pet foods in the UK. As far as I could discover, there were no euthanised companion animals in the meat. However horse meat is/was used, presumably from horses who have been slaughtered/euthanised without pentobarbital.
Ingredients such as "animal fats", "meat", "animal by-products" etc, in the small print on labelling confuse us further because for some reason the "animal" is not specified, and the manufacturer doesn't wish to specify....
That always sets me to thinking!
Also, everything is so 'global' nowadays, and a manufacturer could buy from a supplier in another country in order to cut down costs. That supplier can -and has been known to do, even concerning human grade food! -deliberately mis-label the product.
