Why don't we eat our pets? The answer is we do!

Humans do eat pets. We eat our cats and dogs.

Rendering Facilities

When your pet animal dies, one of three things most likely happens to the dead pet: You bury your pet, the veterinarian cremates the pet, or (most likely) the veterinarian sends the dead animal to a "Rendering Plant" due to the high cost of cremation.

What is a Rendering Plant?

A Rendering Plant is where millions of dead pets, road kill, livestock, and general trash is sent to be reprocessed (ie. recycled). The carcasses are dumped off at the Rendering Plant and then placed on a conveyor belt to be fed into a giant grinder. The bodies (hair, fur, bones, collars, tags, etc) are grinded into "meal" and sent to a large boiler (essentially a giant pressure cooker) where they are cooked at temperatures as high as 500 degree for up to 8 hours.

Protein from the dead dogs, cats, horses, cows, and road kill sinks to the bottom of the boiler. The oils and grease float to the top. Everything is recycled. The oils end up in things like makeup, lipstick, and numerous other products. The protein is recycled into meal that is sold to the public as cat and dog food or livestock feed.

Therefore, if you feed your pet animals "pet food", there is a good chance that your pets are eating other pets of the same species as well as animals of a multitude of different species.

Which brings me full circle in regards to my comment that humans eat pets. Most livestock at times eat "livestock feed" which means that most cattle, horses, and pigs are eating recycled cat, dog, cattle, horses, and pigs...which means that if you love a good hamburger, steak, ribs, or pork you are in fact eating the protein from your cats and dogs as well.

Humans, through the process of "rendering" eat our pets.

If this sick revelation isn't enough to sicken you, consider this: Studies have shown that the chemicals used to euthanize pet animals survive the rendering process which means that those chemicals are recycled back into the food chain. Not only are pets eating their brothers and sisters but they are also eating the same chemicals that are used to eventually kill them.

Also, diseased animals with rabies, mad cow, feline leukemia, etc. are rendered too. Rendering professionals claim that the diseases don't survive the rendering process. However, other experts point out that mad cow disease jumped into humans through the process of...you guessed it...rendering.

Rendering Plants are a billion dollar industry that exist across the US, Canada, and the entire world Currently most rendering facilities focus on pet-to-pet or animal-to-human rendering.

If today your pet animal could speak to you, they would say something like this, "Soylent Green is pets!"

My question is, how long before humans will say, "Soylent Green is humans!"

Human population is out of control. At some point human-to-human rendering may solve the approaching global food crisis.