From: snoopy@spacemanspiff.den.mmc.com (Cindy Newell)
Subject: Re: Hill's Science Diet - good idea?
Organization: Denver, Colorado
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 19:44:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.172720.2355@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
>In article <44414@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> qhwpyd@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Cynthia Goff) writes:
>>
>>     Decaying carcasses are not slaughtered and no cancerous ones are either.
>>I don't believe you can get cancer by eating something that has cancer anyway.
>>As I said before, if the animal and/or its organs are not healthy, the USDA
>>inspector will condemn that animal/carcass in the blink of an eye.
>
>This is certainly true when they're doing meat for *human* consumption. But
>what happens to the ones that don't pass the test? Are they just thrown away
>somewhere? I doubt it, not only because of the cost of the animals but also
>because of the problem of disposal. Cows are large animals. Did you see any
>animals being rejected? If so, did they show you what's done with them? I'd
>be very interested in knowing. 
>
>The consensus seems to be that they wind up in pet food. I don't know whether
>this is true or not, but I am not particularly worried about it. Predators
>in the wild often kill diseased or old animals, simply because it's easier; 
>many will scavenge carcasses as well. I am sure that the processing pet food 
>receives kills the worst of the bacteria, parasites, etc. that might have 
>infected the original animal while it was alive. The fact that it's in cans
>which keep for ages is an indication of this (dry food contains very little
>animal material). And I have never heard of any proof, or even evidence, that
>eating cancerous tissue causes cancer.
>-- 
>Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
>Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu


I don't know whether or not I should post this...it is kind-of gross.  If
you don't think you can stomach reading about what your family (cat) may
or may not be eating, please press 'n' now.  Hopefully this control<L>
thing will work but I am leaving some spaces just in case.

^L





















Here I go.  I have friends who have a cattle/pig farm in Northeast 
Colorado.  Whenever they have an older cow die they call this
truck and supposedly this truck will come out and pick up the dead
animal and take it to a pet food processing plant.  I am not sure
whether or not this is true but I don't expect that these people
would blatantly lie to me.  After I read this, I didn't know what
to feed my babies (cats of course), but I had to feed them something.
I have never paid too much attention to the labels on their food
so I don't know what exactly in it (they get Purina One).  Hopefully
it isn't too bad.  I comfort myself in knowing that cats are carnivores
so maybe the stuff isn't too bad.


-Cindy (owned by Quinnster, Bestyboobie, and Heidimeniedi)

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