Do shelters that kill sell carcasses to China for dog food manufacture? I'm not seeing anything about that in the article you linked.
Still don’t know how to access my old bookmarks, so I googled.
This seems to be all American made, you may remember when the Chinese put plastic in the substance they sell to us as a pet food ingredient. Melamine causes testing to indicate higher than accurate protein levels.
“Vets were especially worried about that possibility in the 1990s, when it looked like dogs were becoming resistant to pentobarbital. Some vets speculated that dogs were getting enough pentobarbital through their food that it let them build up a tolerance”
“Two other terrible policies tell pet food manufacturers the FDA will consider the diversion of contaminated or adulterated food for animal use, as long as it’s not otherwise in violation of the law.
Even though the FDA is fully aware that dead, dying, disabled, or diseased (4-D) animals are used as animal food, the agency allows its use as long as it’s heat-processed (cooked in a can or rendered). However, if the objectionable material is raw then they’re in violation of the law:
“*Uncooked meat derived from 4-D animals is adulterated under Section 402(a)(5) of the Act, and its shipment in interstate commerce for animal food use is subject to appropriate regulatory action.*’
Which brings us to the the final insult to consumers, the FDA will not consider it objectionable if pet food manufacturers wish to use rendered animal tissues from animals that have died otherwise than by slaughter in pet food. Rendered material is the most likely source of pentobarbital contaminated meat in pet foods today just as it was twenty years ago.”
In the 2022 film How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a group of young climate activists get together to blow up a pipeline in Texas. The movie is fictional, but the book it’s adapted from is not. In the 2021 book, author Andreas Malm argues that sabotage and property damage are valid tactics to confront fossil fuel use and calls for an escalation in tactics.
We should “[d]amage and destroy new CO2-emitting devices,” Malm writes. “Put them out of commission, pick them apart, demolish them, burn them, blow them up. Let the capitalists who keep investing in the fire know that their properties will be trashed.”
Climate activists have yet to go that far, but they’re doing lots of other things.
Last week’s Climate Week events, timed to the UN General Assembly, drew thousands of protesters to New York. Over 100 people were arrested for blockading the entrances to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York while calling on financial regulators to stop funding fossil fuel companies. At the New York March to End Fossil Fuels, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told a cheering crowd, “We must be too big and too radical to ignore.” ...
... radical forms of protest have historically been deployed by social movements to cast a spotlight on desperate situations, when conventional legal and political responses have been deemed woefully inadequate. After decades of international negotiations, the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change yet again warned that current emissions put countries far off limiting warming to below 2°C by 2100. Severe droughts, intolerable heat, wildfires, violent storms, crop failures, sea-level rise and social turmoil are expected to spiral once global temperatures exceed that threshold.
As such, some climate activists are likely to deploy increasingly radical tactics in the years ahead. History shows that may be a good thing for the wider movement....
Such radical acts of self-sacrifice have often take place where the mobilisation of a social movement is already underway. This dynamic is known as the radical flank effect. When the efforts of the movement are frustrated, radical segments emerge and deploy more disruptive tactics. These serve to render the demands of their mainstream counterparts more palatable in the eyes of governments and the public, effectively advancing the entire movement’s agenda.
... These forms of protest are especially common during times of crisis – like the unfolding climate emergency – when the lives of millions – human and nonhuman – may be threatened.
These modes of environmental protest are also powerful articulations of grief over the narrowing prospects of a viable future for many of Earth’s inhabitants....
Extinction Rebellion has taken the next step. I endorse this ruff and pawsome radical terrierism fur the planet, GoPupsGo!
A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower.
-- Charlie Sykes on MSNBC
1312. ETTD.
An explanation for the crab obsession? Would Lulu behave the same if it was Milk Bones or bacon buried in the sand?
Btw, I've been seeing the TV ads for all of the "fresh" dog food companies you've started up. Kudos and congrats!
1) bacon rules all
2) dog people have been feeding their dogs as family members for at least 14,000 years, but mostly I’m just doing as I was taught by my mom and grandmother.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
Someone took an action shot of their dog jumping in the water and it will haunt my sleep forever
I've probably watched that last X 50 times. Cracks me up every time. Gooool!
And I posted it. 
That lying bitch!