05-02-2002, 09:55 PM
Quote:cause I dont want to eat things that lord knows what happened to it in the hands of others before it was on my plate (yes you can say that about anything, but I've seen this stuff firsthand). The only way your safe is if you eat Grade A (VERY expensive, high class etc etc) meat, and sometimes Grade B. If I ate McDonalds, etc. I might as well open up a can of dog food, and most dog foods now have a higher grade than fast food joints.
This is sooooooo true, but I must disagree about the dog food thing.
Did you know that some dog and cat foods actually have euthanized dogs & cats in them? Yes, it is true. Alot of dog and cat foods that you get in the grocery store do, even some so called premeium foods do it. Rendering plants pick up euthanized animals from animal shelters as well as cows and other animals that don't make it for human grade consumption at the slaughter house. They are rendered and processed and used as a base for pet foods. One of the big issues of using euthanized animals in pet foods is that the drug they use to euthanize the animal (phenobarb.) does not break down in the rendering process and this may be one of the reasons companion animals (cats & dogs) get cancer, amongst other things.