This will gross you out

Today I found THIS article, talking about a forest dumping site that cost a fortune to clean up. It said that someone even dumped a dead horse there. Gross. I thought, don't they have rendering plants there? I had to deal with dead horses twice. One died of old age after a happy long life and one was just too sick to save in a rescue effort. Dead Horses are too big to deal with unless you have heavy machinery. So, what you do (what I did) was ask a neighbor with a tractor to drag the carcass to the road in front of the house and then called the rendering truck. They come from the city and sometimes it takes a couple of days waiting, until they have enough local calls to make it worth their time. But, they do eventually come and the big truck picks the dead animal up for free.

I know horse hooves are used to make glue products and also gelatin. I prefer not to think about it and it hasn't ended my love of Jello. I have that old poster framed in my kitchen, that's why I used it. It's better than a dead horse picture. But, just for the hell of it, I looked up 'what is a rendering plant'? Shit. I wish I hadn't. HERE is some information. I guess we should know this stuff, but, gawd, it's gross. Our pets are definitely eating carcass's if we feed them commercial pet food, but, WE could be ingesting this stuff too. And we probably are. Which is disgusting enough, but, when you think about animals who died of disease and poison being included willy nilly, it makes the whole thing stomach churning. How could any manufacturer use this stuff for human consumption? How do they get away with that?