$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
Now the following three products are produced:
Recycled meat
Animal fat (Yellow grease or tallow)
Bone meal
Since these foods are exclusively use to feed animals, most state agency spot check and test for truth in labeling such as; does the percentage of protein, phosphorous and calcium match the rendering plant's claims; do the percentages meet state requirements? However, testing for pesticides and other toxins in animal feeds is incomplete or not done.
Recycled Products and Usage: Every day, hundreds of rendering facilities across the United States truck millions of tons of this 'food enhancer' to dairy industry, poultry ranches, cattle feed-lots, hog farms, fish-feed facilities, and pet-food manufacturers. This food enhancer is mixed with other ingredients to feed the billions of animals. Rendering facilities have different specialties. Some product-label names are: meat meal, meat by-products, poultry meat, poultry byproducts, fishmeal, fish oil, yellow grease, tallow, beef fat, and chicken fat. A 1991 USDA report states that rendering facilities produced approximately 7.9 billion pounds of meat, bone meal, blood meal, and feather meal in 1983. Of that amount:
• 34 percent was used in pet food • 34 percent in poultry feed • 20 percent in pig food
• Rest (12 percent) in dairy and beef cattle feed Scientific American cites a dramatic rise in the use of animal protein in commercial dairy feed since 1987. At least 250 rendering facilities operate in the United States and modern rendering facilities are large and centralized, and the industry's revenues amount to $2.4 billion a year, said Bruce Blanton, executive director of the National Renderers Association in Alexandria, VA.
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