in this modern age of environmental awareness, should we recycle our departed pets for cat/dog food? It means, at least, that they give something back to the world that was so kind to them.
2007-08-27 22:33:29 · 27 answers · asked by raspberry_to_you 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
You obviously haven't eaten at Zorba's Kebab House or Yu Mun Chi Kat's Chinese Takeaway
2007-08-27 22:37:40 · answer #1 · answered by jamand 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Don't you know that's how Mad Cow disease started? We started using animal enzymes or whatever in the bulk food for cattle. Look what has happened to those cannibals in the South Pacific, after eating their enemy's brains. The answer lies in the stopping of unnecessary breeding and being responsible pet owners. The Chinese have already caused enough pain and suffering because of their lax control of pet food manufacturing. Something like that could start a war! My poor old dead dog didn't have any cause to "give" back. She was giving me so much affection and companionship while she lived with me and not once ever complained. How do you repay loyalty?
2007-08-31 23:01:45 · answer #2 · answered by Davey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Little late perhaps ... this idea has already been assessed and applied to the degree feasible relative to the health and dietary needs of the organisms that could potentially consume such matter. Keep the ideas coming though, and hopefully one day you'll come up with an original never-before-seen concept for saving the planet.
2007-08-28 05:58:37 · answer #3 · answered by Bawn Nyntyn Aytetu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does the modern age means there's no love and honour left here in our world?Even if yes,I will try to be the same as hard as I can.I honestly love my pets and I think it would be even disrespectful to...umm,well let them be eaten.I don't know how cruel somebody would be to actually do this.Maybe it is very one-sided opinion,but I really think so.
2007-08-28 06:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by Feja Katyte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess we can consider it done, read the article i found:
The pet food industry, a billion-dollar, unregulated operation, feeds on the garbage that otherwise would wind up in landfills or be transformed into fertiliser. The hidden ingredients in a can of commercial pet food may include roadkill and the rendered remains of cats and dogs. The pet food industry claims that its products constitute a "complete and balanced diet" but, in reality, commercial pet food is unfit for human or animal consumption.
"Vegetable protein", the mainstay of dry dog foods, includes ground yellow corn, wheat shorts and middlings, soybean meal, rice husks, peanut meal and peanut shells (identified as "cellulose" on pet food labels). These often are little more than the sweepings from milling room floors. Stripped of their oil, germ and bran, these "proteins" are deficient in essential fatty acids, fat-soluble vitamins and antioxidants. "Animal protein" in commercial pet foods can include diseased meat, roadkill, contaminated material from slaughterhouses, faecal matter, rendered cats and dogs and poultry feathers. The major source of animal protein comes from dead-stock removal operations that supply so-called "4-D" animals - dead, diseased, dying or disabled - to "receiving plants" for hide, fat and meat removal. The meat (after being doused with charcoal and marked "unfit for human consumption") may then be sold for pet food.
Read more if interested:
http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/petfood1.html
2007-08-28 05:44:55 · answer #5 · answered by passion 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I think that would leave too big a margin for error, would open uncharted territory and not a good one. It's a whole new unexplored industry if there were to be any usage of dogs and cats for pet food.
2007-08-28 05:38:20 · answer #6 · answered by August lmagination 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hello Raspberry, No way I Love my pets and I can't think about other animals would be eating them. No No No!!!
A Friend.
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2007-08-28 05:38:32 · answer #7 · answered by poppy1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Methinks the chinese have already beaten you to that idea. As they either kill and eat dogs or they will find a freshly killed dog and eat it....not sure bout cats tho.
2007-08-28 05:42:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a horrible thought would you make spag bol out of your grandma? Pets are family too.
2007-08-28 05:42:06 · answer #9 · answered by linz78 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so you want dogs and cats to eat processed dead dogs and cats and turn them into cannibals? you sicko.
seriously, if you think this is a good idea, then my dogs faeces has more common sense than you - and what a pile of sh*t that is.
2007-08-28 09:40:55 · answer #10 · answered by Draconia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋