“The facility smells intensely of rotting animals” – Truth about Pet Food

October 17, 2023 Kar-Bay-Inc

When you look at a Google Earth image of Baker Commodities, it looks to be an old dilapidated factory of some sort, that is oozing green goo into a canal. By looking at this old factory one would never think ‘food’ is produced here.

Baker Commodities is a rendering facility. “recycling animal by-products and kitchen wastes since 1937”.

Food IS produced in this plant…pet food (feed) ingredients.

The Baker Commodities location pictured above – in Vernon California – is currently in a legal battle with city officials due to odors coming from the plant year after year. According to a LAist.com story about the legal battle between the city of Vernon and Baker Commodities, an air inspector who visited the plant stated: “the odor at the facility smells intensely of rotting animals. He said in a sworn written statement filed in court that the first time he inspected Baker he wanted to vomit.”

“…smells intensely of rotting animals…”

May 2019:

January 2020:

August 2021:

No wonder it smells of rotting animals.

After these parts of animals – leftovers and condemned animal parts – are dumped onto the ground, after an unknown amount of time they are bulldozed into pits, ground, and cooked. And then the brown powder (below) is shipped to pet food manufacturers to become ‘Natural’ and ‘Premium’ pet foods – without telling the pet food/treat consumer ingredients were made with decomposing animals and parts.

This putrid animal waste – illegal to be used in any food, animal or human per federal law – is allowed by FDA to be disposed of into pet food with no required disclosure on the label. And this same horrible practice of rotting animal waste, dumped on the ground into large piles to be processed into pet food ingredients happens all across the US in many rendering facilities.

Why aren’t pet food consumers warned?

There are required warning notices on all types of products from tools to furniture (flammable), to toys, to drain cleaners, and oven cleaners. So why are there no required warning notices on pet foods or treats that contain rendered, rotting animal waste?

Don’t pet owners deserve to be warned if their pet food or treat contains rotting animal waste? Don’t pet owners deserve to be warned their pet food or treat ingredients traveled in unrefrigerated trucks, were dumped on the ground and allowed to decompose?

Yes…we do.

Please take action and ask the FDA why pet foods and treats do not include a warning notice when ingredients could be sourced from condemned animal material, decomposing dead animals, animal parts not stored or transported under clean and refrigerated conditions. Ask the FDA why pet owners are not warned.

Pet food consumers deserve to be informed, deserve to have the opportunity to NOT support pet food companies that utilize putrid animal waste ingredients. We have to ask and ask and ask them again.

Email FDA at: AskCVM@fda.hhs.gov.

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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