Definizione in inglese:
As discussed in Chapter Two, companion animals from clinics, pounds, and shelters can and are being rendered and used as sources of protein in pet food. Dead-stock removal operations play a major role in the pet food industry. Dead animals, road kill that cannot be buried at roadside, and in some cases, zoo animals, are picked up by these dead stock operations. When an animal dies in the field or is killed due to illness or disability, the dead stock operators pick them up and truck them to the receiving plant. There the dead animal is salvaged for meat or, depending on the state of decomposition, delivered to a rendering plant. At the receiving plants, the animals of value are skinned and viscera removed. Hides of cattle and calves are sold for tanning. The usable meat is removed from the carcass, and covered in charcoal to prevent it from being used for human consumption. Then the meat is frozen, and sold as animal food, which includes pet food.


Per informazioni in italiano, vedi il secondo sito.

Non sono sicura del termine italiano, perche' non so se la legislazione italiana europea lo permette. Si tratta di impianti, come ti dice il testo inglese citato, dove gli animali morti di morte naturale, incidenti, malattia, vengono trasformati in cibo per cani e gatti o in altre materie per usi agricolo industriali. La mucca pazza e' un caso chiaro di trasformazione di animali morti in mangime.

Vedi http://www.regione.piemonte.it/sanita/sanpub/vigilanza/dwd/b...

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