50K Pounds of Meat Destroyed After Employee Caught Peeing at Workstation

Founded in 1936, Smithfield Foods is a food manufacturer based out of Virginia that is "passionate about producing good food the right way."

And that also explains why your pet’s food can contain such things as bits of ID tags, flea collars, antibiotic tags from livestock, and even plastic. The “Buyer’s Guide to Rendered Fats” also notes that almost all tallow (a fat byproduct of the rendering process) “contains polyethylene (PE), which is a foreign material in tallow, to some degree. It finds its way into the rendering plant as meat wrappers mixed in with the raw material. Most of the polyethylene wrappers used by the meat industry are of low density type that will melt at lower temperatures and stay soluble in the tallow.” Well, that’s certainly good to know; at least it’ll be melted before your pet eats it or you brush your teeth with it. But how do meat wrappers get into your pet’s food? When the truck heading to the rendering plant dumps its load of meat rejects from your local supermarket, including trimmings, refuse, offal (as bad as it sounds), and outdated packages of meat, they don’t bother to remove the packaging. Think about that for a moment: The Styrofoam trays and the plastic wrap go right into the cooker with everything else.

Some pet food companies buy raw goods from rendering facilities that process animals euthanized at animal shelters. That means that some pet food is made from a variety of meats that humans wouldn’t eat, including diseased livestock and cats and dogs containing lethal doses of sodium pentobarbital. In other words, the body of a stray dog killed in a shelter may be ground up into dog food.

FDA Admits Diseased Animal Carcasses Are Used In Pet Food

>>Smithfield Foods is owned by the Chinese.
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TRUE. For several years now, we have made sure never to buy Smithfield.

62 posted on 10/18/2018 12:40:23 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian

>>Smithfield Foods is owned by the Chinese.
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TRUE. For several years now, we have made sure never to buy Smithfield.

63 posted on 10/18/2018 12:40:23 PM PDT by Right-wing Librarian

did you ever try to pee with your gloves on?? I can’t even zip the zipper or unbutton the button with gloves on my hands.

64 posted on 10/18/2018 1:20:42 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)

“But whatever can be rinsed, gets rinsed.”

Same here.

65 posted on 10/18/2018 3:28:29 PM PDT by FrogMom (Time marches on...)

Oh, man...good one!!!

66 posted on 10/18/2018 4:53:44 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)

What, you people thought it was real marinade on their pork loin?

67 posted on 10/18/2018 7:52:35 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputee)

How do you suppose it would have been received, if we found out about the incident, and that the company just kept the line going?

68 posted on 10/18/2018 8:26:11 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))

Is this true? I’d hate to have to start making food for my dogs and cats at home Anybody know of a pet food company that doesn’t do this? We buy Science Diet now.

69 posted on 10/18/2018 8:31:19 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))

Or perhaps that delicious “LONG PIG”, after all China does have a hell of a lot of surplus population.

70 posted on 10/18/2018 11:11:39 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)

Purina. SKip the regular stuff and get the Beyond or Simply stuff.

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