$JES 921 Book of Compassion Reverence For All Life Reference Book

Author(s): Pramoda Chitrabhanu, Pravin K Shah
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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3.- MILK – ITS IMPACT ON HEALTH, CRUELTY, AND POLLUTION
Pravin K. Shah Jaina Education Committee
03 - Recycling of Slaughterhouse Waste
(Rendering Facility)
By reading this article you will realize that the dairy cows are no longer vegetarian animals. The dairy industry feeds them recycled meat mixed with regular grain feed. The recycled meat is derived by recycling slaughterhouse waste, dead animals (such as millions of euthanized cats and dogs from veterinarians and animal shelters), and supermarket and restaurant waste.
Rendering Facility: Rendering facility performs one of the important function functions on Earth. They recycle dead animals, slaughterhouses waste, and supermarket and restaurant rejects into various products known as recycled meat, bone meal, and animal fat.
These products are used as a source of protein and other nutrients in the diets of dairy animals, poultry, swine, pet foods, cattle feed, and sheep feed. Animal fat is also mixed in animal feeds as an energy source. One estimate states that some 40 billion pounds a year of slaughterhouse wastes like blood, bone, and viscera, as well as the remains of millions of euthanized cats and dogs passed along by veterinarians and animal shelters, are rendered annually into livestock feed. This way they turn dairy cows, other cattle and hogs, which are natural herbivores (vegetarians), into unwitting carnivores (non-vegetarians). However, without rendering facility, our cities would run the risk of becoming filled with diseased and rotting carcasses. Fatal viruses and bacteria would spread uncontrolled through the population. Dr. William Hueston, associate dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at College Park, MD USA, said:
“Dead animals are an ideal medium for bacterial growth."
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