XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.agriculture, sci.agriculture   
   XPost: alt.cats   
      
   On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:58:24 -0400, Diogenes  wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:42:40 -0700 (PDT), "Mr.Smartypants"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Apr 12, 10:00 pm, Goo wrote:   
   >>> On 4/12/2011 4:40 PM, dh@. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:56:12 -0400, Fly-By   
    wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> >> dh@. wrote:   
   >>> >>>      Not likely:   
   >>>   
   >>> Yet they are.   
   >>   
   >>What happens to the choice cuts, Goo?   
   >   
   >More likely the carcasses which do not pass federal inspection for   
   >human consumption (required for all meat which moves in interstate   
   >commerce) are relegated to pet food.   
      
       Goo believes some cattle, sheep, turkeys and chickens are raised only to   
   become pet food, but he can't say how long he thinks they are raised. To begin   
   with he tried to convince us that some cattle are raised for 12 years only to   
   become pet food. We let him know he was wrong, but he still continued to   
   believe   
   it for a number of years. Finally he learned somehow that he was wrong and   
   tried   
   various attempts at lying his way out of it, but since we know the truth it   
   only   
   made him look even worse. Goo still believes some cattle and etc are raised   
   only   
   to become pet food, but now he's afraid to say how long he thinks they are   
   raised. He just can't accept the idea that pet food is made of by-products from   
   human food, but instead believes animals are raised only to become pet food.   
   Recently Ron has been trying to help the Goober think it through and realise   
   what he's trying to get people to believe, but apparently Goo's not mentally   
   capable of keeping up. He still believes livestock are raised only to become   
   pet   
   food even though he doesn't know for how long, doesn't know what happens to the   
   prime cuts, and hasn't been able to find any evidence at all that such animals   
   exist or even that there is any need for them.   
      
   >Federal law allows that animals   
   >which arrive at a slaughterhouse in '4D' condition (Dead, Dying,   
   >Disabled or Diseased) can be processed into pet food.   
   >   
   >Incidentally, the USDA does not require inspection of pet food   
   >ingredients.   
      
       It seems that pet food plants would not be up to the standards which would   
   allow them to process human grade food. If that's true and IF Goo were correct,   
   when animals raised only to become pet food are slaughtered at pet food   
   facilities the meat would become contaminated and have to be used for pet food,   
   even top choice cuts. Goo is apparently imagining healthy prime age beef cattle   
   being raised and slaughtered and used for nothing but pet food. He probably   
   believes there are top choice steaks in cans of beef pet food, and nice plump   
   chicken breasts in cans of chicken flavored pet food, etc... The only   
   alternative would be for him to think there are choice cuts being sold to the   
   human food market, as by-products from the pet food market. Either way seems   
   unlikely to me, but they probably both seem likely to Goo.   
      
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