What happens to the bones of animals which are used for slaughter?

Answer 1

i buy them and sell them to people who have bone fetishes.....if anyone wishes to buy some please look at www.zebrahead.com

Answer 2

They go into many different things depending on the animal slaughtered. Some go into animal feed some go into fertilisers in both cases it is ground into a fine powder first. There may be other uses also.

Answer 3

After the meat is mechanically recovered in a centrifuge, the bleached bones are boiled to make stock for soups etc, then ground up and used for fertiliser, a bit gory, What!

Answer 4

At my work we buy the bones for stocks. In some places they are sold for the marrow, which if the bones are prepared properly can be considered quite a delicacy.

Answer 5

Some butchers bag them up and sell them for people to give to their dogs
Ever heard of blood and bone? Its a fetilizer you can use on your plants and the bone ingredient is grounded bone
Chefs buy them and boil them to make stock also

Answer 6

They are crushed all meat extracted and the bone gos for bone meal powder for gardens pottery and various other things

Answer 7

I buy bones either for stock or to make Marrowbone Salad which is one of the most delicious things in the world. I use this recipe and it is fabulous

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/food.recipe/aid/512153

Answer 8

The bones, blood and offal (guts to you) are collected by rendering works and turned into fertilizer. It's called "blood and bone".

Answer 9

Some are made into bone meal for gardening.

Answer 10

They are effectively cremated then ground up for agricultural bonemeal OR used in the production of carpenter's glue.

Answer 11

They get taken to animal rendering factories where they are boiled to make dog food, cat food, glue and other by-products.

Not pleasant but at least nothing goes to waste!