Mad Cow Pet Food?
by Susan Thixton
Recently the Salt Lake Tribune published an article warning livestock owners not to feed “cheap pet food to livestock”. “Utah’s state veterinarian is warning ranchers to avoid giving inexpensive pet food to their herds. Earl Rogers says most pet food has ingredients that could help spread an illness in livestock called BSE. It’s against state and federal law to give it to cattle.” BSE is mad cow disease.
Even though pet food manufacturers deny using inferior grade of meat in pet food, this article proves that dangerous meat ingredients are processed into pet foods. Pet food ingredients such as ‘meat and bone meal’, ‘meat meal’, ‘animal digest’, and ‘by-products’ (any variation) - by definition could contain rejected for use in human food meat ingredients. For many years it has been rumored that some pet foods contain what is known as the Four D’sdead, diseased, drugged, and dying animals.
At USDA meat processing facilities, cattle entering the plant are placed on a mandatory hold for 24 hours before being processed. Any animal that goes ‘down’ - cannot stand - are rejected for use into human food. Downer animals are known risks for BSE or mad cow disease. The intention of rejecting these risk animals into human food is to prevent spreading mad cow disease into the human food chain. Unfortunately, these risk downer animals ARE processed into pet food.
State Veterinarians, the USDA, and the FDA are well aware of the possibility of spreading mad cow disease to cattle from eating pet food. Andthey are well aware that pets are eating potentially contaminated pet foods. Mad cow disease has already crossed species to cats and minks around the world. Please avoid feeding your pet foods and treats that use meat and bone meal, meat meal, animal digest, and by-products.
About the Author:
dog and cat food, cat food, dog food Learn the ‘truth’ about dog and cat food - visit www.TruthAboutPetFood.com. Sign up for the free dog and cat food newsletter and subscribe to Petsumer Report. Know what your dog and cat is eating to keep them safe!
Last 5 posts by Susan Thixton
- Do you still have doubts on the dangers of Chinese imports? - April 21st, 2008
- They Know We Know...Pet Food Manufacturers - April 20th, 2008
- Comparing the cost of pet foods - April 8th, 2008
- Pet Food Field Trip to Walmart - April 7th, 2008
- What's in a Pet Food Name? - April 4th, 2008
