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Mad Cow Disease and Pet Food

In a recent article from the Salt Lake Tribune - livestock owners were warned 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." By the way - BSE is mad cow disease!

Now, even though pet food manufacturers adamantly deny using any inferior grade of meat in pet foods - this article is more than proof to me. Pet food ingredients 'meat and bone meal', 'meat meal', 'animal digest', and ''by-products' (in any variation) - by AAFCO definition - contain meat ingredients that can be rejected for use in human food. It has been rumored for many years that the above ingredients can contain what is known as the Four D's - dead, 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.

It seems that everyone is well aware of the risk of spreading mad cow disease from cattle eating pet food. Except no one is stopping risk materials from use in pet food. Please avoid feeding your pet foods and treats that use meat and bone meal, meat meal, animal digest, and by-products.

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