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Mad Cow Disease and Pet Food
The Salt Lake Tribune recently published an article warning livestock owners not to feed "cheap pet food to livestock". "Utah's state veterinarian is warning ranchers to avoid giving inexpensive pet food to their herds. Earl Rogers says most pet food has ingredients that could help spread an illness in livestock called BSE. It's against state and federal law to give it to cattle." BSE is mad cow disease.
Even though pet food manufacturers deny using inferior grade of meat in pet food, this article proves that dangerous meat ingredients are processed into pet foods. Pet food ingredients such as 'meat and bone meal', 'meat meal', 'animal digest', and 'by-products' (any variation) - by definition could contain rejected for use in human food meat ingredients. For many years it has been rumored that some pet foods contain what is known as the Four D'sdead, diseased, drugged, and dying animals.
At USDA meat processing facilities, cattle entering the plant are placed on a mandatory hold for 24 hours before being processed. Any animal that goes 'down' - cannot stand - are rejected for use into human food. Downer animals are known risks for BSE or mad cow disease. The intention of rejecting these risk animals into human food is to prevent spreading mad cow disease into the human food chain. Unfortunately, these risk downer animals ARE processed into pet food.
This article proves that State Veterinarians are well aware of the possibility of spreading BSE to cattle from eating pet food - they are well aware that pets are eating potentially BSE contaminated meats. The disease has already crossed species to cats and minks around the world. The only suggestion I have for you is to avoid any pet foods and pet treats using meat and bone meal, meat meal, animal digest, and by-products.
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