The concern is where those euthanized animals will end up and what health consequences pets could suffer consuming pet food that contains a euthanized animal. According to the pet food industry meat can come from virtually any mammal 1.
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In Los Angeles alone two hundred tons of euthanized animals including dogs are delivered to rendering plants on a monthly basis.
Are euthanized pets in pet food. The most likely explanation for pentobarbital in pet food is the presence of a euthanized animal in the food chain. Because pentobarbital is used to euthanize dogs and cats at animal shelters finding pentobarbital in rendered feed ingredients could suggest that the pets were rendered and used in pet food. It became so bad that dogs and cats were building a tolerance to the drugs.
AAFCO president admits deadrendered animal remains from euthanized pets are used in making pet food. ADVERTISEMENT When pentobarbital is found in pet food people have jumped to the unsettling conclusion that euthanized dogs and cats were used to manufacture the pentobarbital-contaminated pet food since euthanizing dogs and cats is the most common use of this drug. Staffing shortages or shutdown of slaughter facilities related to COVID 19 is causing some livestock producers to euthanize animals.
Pentobarbital is most commonly used as a sedative anesthetic or to euthanize animals it said. Pet food includes animal ingredients that claim to be healthy for pets but there are reports about companies using euthanized pets in pet food. AAFCO is short for The Association of American Feed Control.
Euthanized dogs and cats arent being used in pet food. So generic meat meal can be legally made from road kill dead diseased or dying farm animals even euthanized cats and dogs. It was proposed that the presence of pentobarbital in dog food may have caused dogs to become less responsive to the drug when being euthanized.
Pets that eat pet food containing pentobarbital can experience drowsiness dizziness excitement. A bullet costs 25 cents. AAFCO could easily ban the use of rendered pets as something allowed into our dogs food but they dont.
However a 2002 FDA study found no dog or cat DNA in the foods they tested so it was theorized that the drug found in dog food came from euthanized cattle and horses. Sad but true our precious pets are being rendered for use in dog and cat food. There are many legends about pet food and one of the most tenacious and reaction-provoking ones is the use of euthanized pets in pet food using remains of cats dogs and other animals.
So if a pet food contains animal byproduct meal then pretty much any animal thats not a bird can be in the food including animals that were euthanized. Never mind that most shelter pets were being euthanized via lethal injection using a barbiturate. The trouble with their test was it didnt work.
Below is a letter sent to us by a trusted friend and wife of an over the road trucker. Maybe youve heard the horrors stories the rumors that dog food contains euthanized animals maybe even dogs and cats. That means that some pet food is made from a variety of meats that humans.
Some pet food companies buy raw goods from rendering facilities that process animals euthanized at animal shelters. Farmers dont euthanize sick cows. Hello Dave and Jan Tippy Alfred Sheba Little Cats A B and C Hello New Friends.
Really end up in Pet Food. They are the regulatory group responsible for regulating pet food. In the article CVM Scientists Develop PCR Test to Determine Source of Animal Products in Feed Pet Food the FDA developed the test on the assumption that the origin of the pentobarbital was from euthanized dogs and cats.
All of the ingredients listed above including the euthanized dogs are used by minor and major commercial dog food manufacturers to be part of your dogs daily diet. This is simply the most inexcusable horror. However to present day there is no evidence or regulation to support their claim.
That is the dog food contains parts of euthanized dogs. They suggest that the drug came via euthanized cows and horses and zoo animals. The fear that the food you feed your pets might be made with animals that died by other means than slaughter haunts you every time you feed your pet or examine the pet food in the grocery store.
Its well known that generic meats and meals can contain euthanized animals. The ingredients are rendered so theyre obviously safe even though they come from animals sick with all sorts of diseases and often even still contain the euthanasia drug. Euthanasia drugs of course do not disperse or go inert which is why when you have pets put down you must have them cremated at least.
Since the first public awareness of rendered cooked euthanized dogs and cats the Pet Food Industry has claimed this type of rendered material is not used in pet foods. So in other words yes regulations set by the AAFCO allow diseased and euthanized animals into pet food but dont worry.
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