Many things need rendered fat (read) To get the rendered fat yes animals of all kind are used. These meals are used to soaps, detergents ect and not for pet foods. The fact that a plant is rendering euthn pets does not mean the end rendering goes in to pet foods. In the same study the FDA did on pentobarbitol being found in end products after rendering they also did a DNA test and found neither cat nor dog DNA in any pet food used meat meals or animal fat. Rendered, the word simply , means reduce, convert, or melt down (usually referring to fat) by heat. So, rendered fat is reduced ,converted or melted fat being made. The end product would be called rendered fat or rendered protein. Any pet food using a "meal" is using a "rendered meat." The problem is how these words start losing their definition because someone decides they *think* that know what it means and start spouting about it and people repeat it. The funny thing is due to their misunderstanding everything they are recommending what they are condemning...rendered meat. My site seeks to make sense of things like this. Do you find my site helpful at all? Posted by Kibblelady - October 8, 2009 at 8:31 pm The following message was in reply to the "parent" topic above.

rendered meat Hi, I have seen footage on rendering plants and no your explanation does not satisfy me. I am no expert but when you read documented facts about these plants then I trust no one that puts any of that crap in their food. I see the standards of these places and I don't trust that the rendering plants do the right thing. These are the same companies that allowed their ingriedents to come from China, the same people that poisoned their own baby formula and killed infants and injured 6000 babies. So besides rendered meat which is not acceptable in any pet food, just the fact that the ingriedents come from China are unacceptable. Its sad but the food companies know that but its all about the mighty dollar. Posted by cpn2jxp - November 5, 2009 at 11:34 am

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