By definition, both chicken and chicken meal that is used in pet foods are by - products, even though these ingredients may come from
a human food processing plant and technically were at one time human grade food.
Not exact matches
According to the California Department of Labor Statistics and Research, workers in
food -
processing plants have a higher likelihood of being hurt on the job than workers in many other industries.1 One injury while using a meat slicer could end up costing you hundreds of thousands of dollars, especially when you think about the damage that a meat slicer could do to the
human body.
According to the Wisconsin team, that may be a hint that the template for a healthy
human microbiome was set in the distant past, when
food from
plants made up a larger portion of diet and sugar and fat were less available than in contemporary diets with more meat and
processed foods.
But day and night,
plants, microbes and animals like
humans are always producing CO2 by respiration, which is the breaking down of organic material (
food) to get the energy out of it, releasing CO2 in the
process.
Through a
process called bioaccumulation, toxic mercury can progressively accumulate in fatty tissues at each successive stage of the
food chain, from small
plant - eating fish to larger fish that eat them, and finally to
humans who consume the various types of seafood.
Thus, universal characteristics of preagricultural
human diets are helpful in understanding how the recent Western diet may subject modern populations to chronic disease: Before the development of farming and the domestication of livestock practices, dietary choices would have been necessarily limited to minimally
processed wild
plant and animal
foods.
Rendering - the conversion of animal protein unfit for
human consumption into
food for livestock and pets - allows
processing plants to transform useless dead dogs into productive members of the
food chain.
An ingredient might start off being fit for people to eat it, but once it is shipped to a pet
food plant and
processed according to regulations for feed grade products, the term «
human grade» can no longer apply.
Horizon Legacy Grain Free is another superb Canadian
food made by a small company in their own
processing plant using fresh,
human - grade ingredients.
Pet
food companies that buy meat from
human grade suppliers almost always manufacture or
process the meat in pet
food manufacturing
plants.
Logically,
plant sources are cheaper, especially considering that corn gluten meal, the most popular, cheap protein booster, is a byproduct of the
human food processing industry, left over from making corn starch and corn syrup.
What we are talking about here is not exactly «waste» but byproducts (from meat as well as milled grains and other sources) left over from
human food processing are found in many poor quality and even higher quality
foods, especially when the pet
food company is owned by one of the giant companies that also own
plants for
processing human foods.
Grizzly Pet Products was founded in 2002, when company president Harald Fisker — whose background was in engineering, design and marketing for industrial fish - and meat -
processing plants — realized that the salmon oil he saw being produced as a
human -
food byproduct could have excellent nutritional value for pets.
• Knowledge of raw materials, quality control, production
processes, and cost control • Familiar with the equipment and techniques necessary for growing and harvesting raw ingredients and
foods for
human consumption • Proficient in U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA National Nutrient Database and PathogenTracker • Good understanding of biology, especially animal and
plant organisms and their cells, functions, and interactions with one another • Excellent communication skills