What's REALLY in your Dog or Cat's Food?

Source: Susan Thixton, Truth About Pet Food

This is what the Director of the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine has been quoted as saying..

The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine itself allows illegal (per federal law) waste to be disposed of in animal feed and pet food with no warning or disclosure to consumers. Dr. Steven Solomon, director of FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine, stated “we do not believe that the use of diseased animals or animals that died otherwise than by slaughter to make animal food poses a safety concern and
we intend to continue to exercise enforcement discretion.”

In other words, the FDA considers this to be allowed... Not only that, you would NOT believe the number of 'condemned' animals are in pet food.

This comes from the Truth About Pet Food Website...

Besides not requiring disclosure of pet food’s use of condemned or non-slaughtered decomposing animal material on pet food labels, FDA does not disclose how much of this material is used in pet food. But the USDA gives us clues – four times a year.

The USDA disclosed that during this three month time frame 53,605 livestock animals (cattle, hogs) were condemned, and 1,474,140 turkey and chicken carcasses were condemned.

This totals to an estimated 27 million pounds of condemned slaughtered animals…in just three months time. (This total does not include the estimated millions of pounds of animals that died on farms – ‘died otherwise than by slaughter’ – also allowed into pet food without disclosure.)

( this picture was taken at a Pet Food Manufacturing Plant)

*(warning the photo below may be distressing)