This is nonsense, right? (Stearic Acid)

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Washoe

Discussion Starter · Dec 4, 2007

I was looking for information while trying to answer Vegreenmoms http://www.veggieboards.com/boards/showthread.php?t=80314]question about soy sauce[/url] when I stumbled across this (bolding mine):

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Stearic Acid (a fatty substance from pigs' stomachs, or from cows, sheep, or dogs and cats euthenized in animal shelters)

*used in some chocolate and vitamins

I found it here. Its about ¾ of the way down the page. This is just complete BS, right? I mean, she cant even spell euthanize right. This cant possibly be true, can it?

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Kiz

· #2 · Dec 4, 2007

Yeah, it's BS, at least here. Dogs and cats from animal shelters are not used in either human or non-human animal food.

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Jinga

· #3 · Dec 4, 2007

I think they got that quote from peta-kids.

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Stearic Acid-It may sound less gross than "lard," but stearic acid, which often rears its ugly head in chocolate and vitamins, comes from a fatty substance taken from slaughtered pigs' stomachs-or from cows, sheep, or dogs and cats euthanized in animal shelters. Still want to chew on that piece of Fido?

http://www.petakids.com/candy.html

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Kiz

· #4 · Dec 4, 2007

Oh good lord. So just because someone is a "kid" that means they are stupid and gullible and you can tell them whatever you like? And the inference that all urea comes from piss.

Deliberate disinformation sucks, not matter what side it is on.

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vigilant20

· #5 · Dec 4, 2007

Agreed.

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Originally Posted by Kiz

Deliberate disinformation sucks, not matter what side it is on.

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Washoe

Discussion Starter · #6 · Dec 4, 2007

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Originally Posted by Kiz

Yeah, it's BS, at least here. Dogs and cats from animal shelters are not used in either human or non-human animal food.

Is there any place where they are used for human food?

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Kiz

· #7 · Dec 4, 2007

Dogs and cats? Yeah. Dogs, definitely. They are killed for their meat though quite intentionally, it's not like the butchers are driving around with balaclavas on their heads and snooping around the back entrances of shelters at midnight.

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jeneticallymodified

· #8 · Dec 4, 2007

as far as i know, the rendering of roadkill, along with euthanised cats and dogs, along with slaughterhouse byproducts, isn't ilegal in the us or canada. how much of it happens, and where it goes after that... i don't know. maybe the laws are different elsewhere, i'd hope so, especially after the BSE problem.

i'm pretty sure that chemicals used in the euthanisation process would make some products 'adulterated' and therefore unfit for human consumption, under fda regulations- but i'm not sure how that'd be checked, asessed, or if perhaps it'd operate under an acceptable trace amounts scheme... or if it would be applied to products not intended to be eaten- like makeup, for example.

i think i remember that there was a big outcry for about a week around the year 2000, over cats and dogs ending up in cat and dog food. its probably still online from a reputable source somewhere.

this site suggests that the practice is mentioned in the books 'mad cowboy' and 'fast food nation', amongst other places.

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Washoe

Discussion Starter · #9 · Dec 4, 2007

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Originally Posted by Kiz

Dogs and cats? Yeah. Dogs, definitely. They are killed for their meat though quite intentionally, it's not like the butchers are driving around with balaclavas on their heads and snooping around the back entrances of shelters at midnight.

Well, what I really meant was this: if a person buys food which is packaged in China or Viet Nam or Guatemala, etc., etc., etc., is there any possibility that it has doggie byproducts in it?

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jeneticallymodified

· #10 · Dec 4, 2007

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Well, what I really meant was this: if a person buys food which is packaged in China or Viet Nam or Guatemala, etc., etc., etc., is there any possibility that it has doggie byproducts in it?

erm... according to the fount of all truths, wikipedia... theroretically it'd be available closer to home: in canada it is not illegal to sell and eat the meat of dogs and other canines, as long as the meat has been inspected. i didn't know that. i think under food labelling laws the meat would be relatively evident in canadian food though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat

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