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3. - MILK – ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH, CRUELTY, AND POLLUTION
"If you burned all the carcasses, you'd get a terrible air pollution problem."
"If you put it all into landfills, you'd have a colossal public health problem, not to mention stench."
This is a multibillion-dollar industry, and these facilities operate 24 hours a day just about everywhere in America, Europe and other parts of the world. They have been in operation for years. Yet so few of us have ever heard of them.
Raw Material: The raw material which rendering facility recycles include:
Slaughterhouses waste such as heads and hooves from cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, blood, stomachs, intestines, spinal cords, tails, feathers, bones.
Thousands of euthanized cats and dogs from veterinarians and animal shelters
Dead animals such as skunks, rats, and raccoons
Carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste
Supermarket and restaurant rejects Renderers in the United States pick up 100 million pounds of waste material every day.
Half of every butchered cow and a third of every pig is not consumed by humans. An estimated six to seven million dogs and cats are killed in animal shelters each year, said Jeff Frace, a spokesman for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in
New York City. Along with the above material, the Rendering facility are unavoidably process toxic wastes which are accompanied with Raw Material. The following menu of unwanted ingredients often accompanies with dead animals and other raw material:
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Pesticides via poisoned livestock Euthanasia drugs that was given to pets
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