NanciK
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Post by NanciK on Jul 2, 2008 14:39:13 GMT -5
Not sure what this is all about ... are rendering plants getting in on the Kill Buyer business? portland.craigslist.org/clc/grd/739984946.html-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- free removal of unwanted horses (oregon)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: see below Date: 2008-07-01, 11:26PM PDT Rendering plant will remove unwanted horses. Call 541-995-0002 Location: oregon it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests PostingID: 739984946 |
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Post by swissgrl on Jul 2, 2008 15:12:55 GMT -5
it's been flagged
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Post by NanciK on Jul 2, 2008 19:36:59 GMT -5
We all know what rendering is, I'm not opposed to that.
It's how they might be killed at the rendering plant that I'd be worried about.
Are rendering plants even legally allowed to intake live animals?
This could be a KB using a new "marketing" tactic.
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Post by earlybp on Jul 2, 2008 20:24:22 GMT -5
It's a kill buyer tactic. Rendering plants are heavily regulated, and don't take live horses. In fact, when Bert died, I called the only local renderer in the Portland area to come pick him up (thinking that they'd use his body) and they said that they don't use horse parts, but instead just incinerate the bodies. They made a profit off of what I paid to take him away, but that's it.
They said that there is enough competition from China that they can't make a profit off of the horsehair, and that it's too expensive to slaughter and render an animal that's not being used for meat.
I'm thinking that this is a kill buyer posing as a renderer.
My sweetie works with rendering companies to develop biodiesel systems, so I know way too much about yellow grease and tallow.
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Post by wendyp on Jul 2, 2008 21:51:56 GMT -5
In Central Oregon there was a rendering plant, but it closed a couple of years ago. The guy who owned it is still picking up dead horses and hauling them to Portland (?) to an operational rendering plant. He will pick up horses at the vets office after they have been euthanized (it was $150 or $175 to have them pick up our 36 yo mare last October after she was put down) or another gal said that they will shoot the horse and haul the body off......she had them put down (shoot) her old horse and she said he was 'dead on' no pun intended, and the mare was killed instantly. I think she paid $175 for his services............
When the plant was operating here, I think they only took already dead animals, but I don't know that for sure.
Wendy
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