the hellish horror of pet food, is this true??!!!

[Charles]

I stuck my head in the Cargill rendering plant once (a source for pet food), and wound up outside puking over a rail. My foot never touched the ground.

As far as that goes, try to buy a chicken quarter at the local A&P that ain't rotten.

Pet food is slop, but they manage to live on it. Then again, human food is slop as well.

Chas

[BlueStreak]

Smithfield Meatpacking shutdown one of their plants here in the swamp a few years ago blaming FDA regulations. I tend to think that it had a lot more to do with the fact that they had recently lost their fight against the union that had just successfully organized their workers. But, it coulda been both, actually. They were constantly running afoul of food safety inspectors and their own employees.

Anyhow, I know a few guys that worked there for a while and said the place was pretty much a disgusting shithole. And management was just a bunch of incompetent good ol' boy assholes who blamed everyone but themselves for all of their troubles.

Sounds about right. I've worked in places like that before.

Dave

[merrylander]

It has gotten so that when you buy produce at the supermarket if you don't eat it in the parking lot it will be rotten by the time you get home.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Smithfield Meatpacking shutdown one of their plants here in the swamp a few years ago blaming FDA regulations. I tend to think that it had a lot more to do with the fact that they had recently lost their fight against the union that had just successfully organized their workers. But, it coulda been both, actually. They were constantly running afoul of food safety inspectors and their own employees.

Anyhow, I know a few guys that worked there for a while and said the place was pretty much a disgusting shithole. And management was just a bunch of incompetent good ol' boy assholes who blamed everyone but themselves for all of their troubles.

Sounds about right. I've worked in places like that before.

Dave

Read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser if you want a good look inside America's food industry, with particular emphasis on the gigantic ground beef plants in Colorado - amazingly disgusting stuff. It's a wonder we don't all have E Coli.

[Mr. Lin]

Forced cannibalism? Sensational, but I don't buy it at all.

[Mr. Lin]

Originally Posted by merrylander

It has gotten so that when you buy produce at the supermarket if you don't eat it in the parking lot it will be rotten by the time you get home.

Well, not quite that bad here - but I've noticed I now have less than 48 hours to eat a crate of strawberries before mold starts to grow.

I really like strawberries.

[wgrr]

Most byproducts of slaughter houses are recycled by processing it into a form that can be used to supplement the feed that animals being fed out for slaughter eat. Yes, the cow is slaughtered and the left overs are fed to the next cow in line. Neat, huh,

It is widely thought that chickens are fed growth hormones. That is 100% false. The chickens have cattle byproducts in their feed which contain bovine growth hormones. More neat stuff.

At one time we were encouraged to feed the chicken litter, from our houses, mixed with molasses to our cattle. Many farmers did. We did not.

pet food does contain animal byproducts. What do you think they do with the millions of cubic yards of chicken and turkey entrails that come out of the processing plant in my neck of the woods. Every part of the animal is used for something.

I have worked on equipment in these plants. I only buy locally grown meats. I won't touch the crap coming out of these plants.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by wgrr

Most byproducts of slaughter houses are recycled by processing it into a form that can be used to supplement the feed that animals being fed out for slaughter eat. Yes, the cow is slaughtered and the left overs are fed to the next cow in line. Neat, huh,

It is widely thought that chickens are fed growth hormones. That is 100% false. The chickens have cattle byproducts in their feed which contain bovine growth hormones. More neat stuff.

At one time we were encouraged to feed the chicken litter, from our houses, mixed with molasses to our cattle. Many farmers did. We did not.

pet food does contain animal byproducts. What do you think they do with the millions of cubic yards of chicken and turkey entrails that come out of the processing plant in my neck of the woods. Every part of the animal is used for something.

I have worked on equipment in these plants. I only buy locally grown meats. I won't touch the crap coming out of these plants.

You have an aversion to dining on buttholes and eyeballs?

Chas

[Eliterg]

Seriously, this is actually pretty known.