No Chad - I have read what the correct definitions - they have been reproduced with permission - by Ann Martin and other authors. My post is correct to the best of what they have published, of course with permission.
Laureen,
In which case those authors miss quoted the offical publication of AAFCO. If you are interested you can order a copy of this publication at http://www.aafco.org. I personally have no problem feeding rendered animal products, so the presence of a meal in a commercial diet wouldn't necessarily deter me from using that diet.
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Maybe I need more info on the definition of the word *render*. I have seen it described as: meaning "reduced in size", i.e. "cook the flesh, remove some of the water and grind it (reduces it's size) in order to obtain a uniform mix of the meat, ground grains, vitamins & chelated minerals." If a company does this themselves, I would not have a problem if that constitutes rendering, rather than buying from rendering plants that used euthed animals etc.
Rendering is a process used to recycle inedible animal products. If a company simply took edible meat and cooked and ground it, it would still be labelled as meat. No rendering company should be using chemically euthanized animals, and no company that I am aware of will accept dog or cat carcasses (since pet foods are their major customers and no pet food company would want to be accused of putting pets into pet food). There has been concern in the past of euthanized horses being sent to rendering plants and thereby introducing pentabarb into rendered products, but the FDA has taken steps to prevent this from occurring in the future.
While rendering is not the most appetizing of processes, it is important to remember than without this valuable recycling process our landfills would quickly overflow with the waste produced by animal production.
The meat in canned foods is labelled as meat, i.e. chicken, lamb etc and the meat in dry food is labelled as *meal*. So only the food in cans is edible meat, yet in their dry food it is not edible meat? Also, many rendering plants do take euthanized cats and dogs, the one in Quebec just within last year or so said they would no longer take euthanized animals, up to that point they absolutely did, and admitted it. They aren't the only ones. How many rendering plants do you know? I don't even want to know how you know them.
Several dry foods label just the meat, i.e. pro plan has just chicken listed as an ingredient (that is the only bag I have in front of me at this moment). On the East coast of the US, there are less than 8 rendering plants, of those at least 4 have taken measures to certify that dogs and cats are not accepted. I have toured one of the largest rendering plants on the East coast to gain an understanding of the process. It was extremely unpleasant, but very informative.
The companies that use what they call human grade meat use meal in the dry fomula, and they use meat in the canned - those were the ones I was thinking about when I posted i.e. Innova, California Natural, Canidae, Wellness.
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