SC Pet Meals Options positioned in Saluda County South Carolina has been fined $20,000 for polluting space streams.
From Yahoo Information: “One massive creek under the pet meals plant — Mine Creek — was coated in a pea inexperienced slime and carried an odor that neighbors mentioned was nauseating. Earlier than the scum shaped, the water had turned black, residents mentioned.”
Picture supply: https://www.yahoo.com/information/stinky-dark-discharges-drained-pet-110000296.html
“The Pet Meals Options plant, within the tiny Ward group of Saluda County, is a big manufacturing facility that processes byproducts from rooster processing crops to make protein meal for pet meals.”
From Google Earth, under is that this pet meals ingredient plant (SC Pet Meals Options):
And a detailed up of the above picture – the place uncooked supplies look like dumped onto the bottom (quickly to be rooster meal):
This poultry meal/rooster meal plant dumps uncooked meat materials on the bottom, and has uncooked meat materials sitting in open unrefrigerated trailers. (This might NOT be acceptable in any human meals product or human grade pet meals.)
The hypocrisy.
This firm was fined for polluting the setting, however as a result of state and federal regulatory companies enable it – it’s acceptable for the supply of the environmental air pollution (uncooked pet meals components) to be dumped on the bottom, uncovered to climate/pests/contaminants, decompose…after which be processed into pet meals.
What just isn’t allowed to be disposed of within the setting IS allowed to be disposed of into pet meals – with no warning or disclosure to pet meals shoppers.
Pet House owners deserve to be told to what they’re buying. In July 2022, we submitted a Citizen Petition to FDA evidencing why federal legislation helps disclosure of unlawful waste components not processed or dealt with per meals security necessities (feed grade) on pet meals labels. Virtually 2 years later, the FDA has not responded.
Wishing you and your pet(s) the most effective,
Susan Thixton
Pet Meals Security Advocate
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