Recycling of Slaughterhouses Waste (pork)

conceited

On the news they called the plants in questions Recycling plants.
Am I safe in assuming they mean dead animals being used as cattle feed?
Dead dogs cats waste meat from supermarkets etc grinded up and made into feed for the pigs ?

MacGyver

i think it was stale bread they were recycling not animals.

BaconZombie

FYP

MacGyver wrote: »

i think it was stale bread and oil they were recycling not animals.

Fozzie Bear

conceited wrote: »

On the news they called the plants in questions Recycling plants.
Am I safe in assuming they mean dead animals being used as cattle feed?
Dead dogs cats waste meat from supermarkets etc grinded up and made into feed for the pigs ?

No. They out lawed this sort of thing a few years ago after the BSE out break. The recycling they are on about now for pigs is expired bread, sweets, confectionary, etc from supermarkets and others. They seem to think the dioxins came from the plant in Carlow using the incorrect type of oil in their machinery which leaked into the pig feed and caused all this crap. I'm still eating my piggy products. Storm in a tea cup imho. You would need to be eating pig meat 24/7 for 6 months for the amount of dioxins we are talking about here to have an adverse effect on your general well being.

MacGyver

BOFH_139 wrote: »

FYP

cheers for that, forgot about the oil. they also said it could be that they used deisel in burners to dry out the bread once mixed with the oil and that could have introduced the dioxins

conceited

Cheers for clearning that up Fozzie .
So no animals are getting fed to other animals .Thats grand so. I'm still eating pork aswell i think your right about the storm in a tea cup.

ghostdancer

Fozzie Bear wrote: »

Storm in a tea cup imho. You would need to be eating pig meat 24/7 for 6 months for the amount of dioxins we are talking about here to have an adverse effect on your general well being.

exactly.
not to mention most of the pork in the country isn't even affected anyway.

marzic

conceited wrote: »

On the news they called the plants in questions Recycling plants.
Am I safe in assuming they mean dead animals being used as cattle feed?
Dead dogs cats waste meat from supermarkets etc grinded up and made into feed for the pigs ?

Dead dogs, cats and waste meat from supermarkets? just what kind of supermarkets are these?

mumhaabu

I understand that stale bread was processed with its wrappers still on and that Oil that was used in ESB Transformers came into contact with feedstuff contaminating the feedstuff. A Belgian Gelatine plant had noticed a massive rise in dioxins from early September but couldn't trace it.