One Pet Owner’s Rude Awakening – Truth about Pet Food
Warning: the images of pet food ingredient raw materials in this post are graphic.
A true story.
Recently I received an email from a very concerned pet owner. By chance she was at the wrong place at the wrong time and saw something that undoubtedly changed her life forever.
‘A’ was out with friends in downtown Denver, Colorado. They were driving to a party at a warehouse in the industrial part of Denver. Below are ‘A’s’ words describing what they found when their cell phone directions led them down a dead end road.
“As we reached the end of the road, we were face to face with a huge garage that was filled with mountains and pounds of dead, decaying animals. I thought maybe we had accidentally stumbled upon a factory farm or something hellish. We were all in complete shock as to what we were looking at, I couldn’t move nor drive so we stayed there, and I was able to get pictures and videos of this graveyard. While doing everything in our power to withstand the smell, we stayed and observed what they could possibly be doing with deceased creatures in the most unsanitary place on earth. We watched a man on a walkie talkie moving around by the bodies, he did not have a breathing/safety mask on. Then, a bulldozer began to pick up the bodies and move them around the garage. We couldn’t take our eyes off of the horrifying image of thousands of decaying beings in piles like they never existed. Soon enough, someone noticed us and shut the garage door, then a dump truck behind me began to rev his engine viciously, that was our cue to get out of there as fast as we could.”
Below are the pictures of what ‘A’ and friends saw.
What ‘A’ saw, was future pet food ingredients. What’s pictured could become the pet food ingredient pork meal and pork fat and/or pork by-product meal.
What ‘A’ happened across was Darling Ingredients – a rendering facility. A facility that the FDA and Colorado Department of Agriculture allows to sell adulterated ingredients to pet food with no disclosure to pet owners.
Below is a Google Earth image of Darling Ingredients, 5701 York Street, Denver, Colorado.
Note in the above picture, there are 5 trailers of what appears to be dead animal carcasses/animal parts lined up waiting to be processed. Of additional concern, one of the trailers is leaking…right next to the South Platte River that runs through Denver.
What if this trailer full of dead animal carcasses leaking onto the ground a few feet away from the river contained diseased animals? A disease that could travel and spread in the river? Serious animal diseases such as anthrax and tularemia can both survive in water. What if?
It’s not just this one facility either, there are hundreds of other rendering facilities across the US processing the same diseased and decomposing animal material into pet food ingredients. Trailers leaking just as example above contaminating soil and waterways.
And the worst part – the FDA does not believe YOU (pet owners) should be told if your pet’s food contains ingredients like this.
The FDA intentionally allows these ingredients into pet food even though they violate the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act and the Food Safety Modernization Act.
And the FDA intentionally decided you don’t need to know if your pet’s food contains this illegal waste.
FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) Director Dr. Steven Solomon told us in April 2019 “we do not believe that the use of diseased animals or animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to make animal food poses a safety concern and we intend to continue to exercise enforcement discretion.”
And FDA CVM’s Dr. Solomon stated the agency doesn’t believe pet owners need to know how pet feeds differ from pet foods or human foods. In other words, Dr. Solomon doesn’t believe pet owners need to know if their pet’s food contains illegal ingredients exampled above.
As difficult as they are to look at, please look at the above pictures of the Darling Ingredients rendering facility again. And then PLEASE send emails to your representatives in Congress demanding change. IF FDA is going to allow pet foods to source ingredients from diseased animals and animals that have died other than by slaughter, the pet food label MUST disclose that.
Pet owners can also email the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine at AskCVM@fda.hhs.gov.
My thanks to ‘A’ for sharing her story with us.
Wishing you and your pet(s) the best,
Susan Thixton
Pet Food Safety Advocate
Author Buyer Beware, Co-Author Dinner PAWsible
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