rendering industry

One further important point is the reorganization of our rendering industry in all the Member States.

We do not know what the practices and regulations of the U.S. rendering industry are."

Like most institutions in modern soci-ety, the rendering industry was a synthesis of inherited traditions and recent innovations.

The rendering industry is one of the oldest recycling industries, and made possible the development of a large food industry.

In 1989, the American rendering industry initiated a voluntary program under which, for example, no sheep heads were to be accepted at rendering plants.

Meat and bone meal (MBM) is a product of the rendering industry.

And in fact, none of the journalists who reported the announcement bothered to notice that the feed and rendering industries were declining to sign on.

The rendering industry, quietly and with little fanfare, has collected this potential waste and converted it into usable, in fact, essential products."

"About this time the rendering industry was seeking new markets," noted Henry Fuller, a scientist at the University of Georgia.

National Renderers Association-the main trade and lobby association of the rendering industry in the United States.

"The buffalo exemplifies the rendering industry because the American Plains Indian appreciated the value of utilizing the whole animal," argued Dennis Mullane in the introduction.

"The concentration of the broiler industry in the Southeast made it feasible for the rendering industry to collect and process the offal from the poultry process-ing plants.

Then a guy from the rendering industry got up and as much as told them, 'Look, if you people don't come to the table, we're going to stop rendering your blackface sheep.' "

The government must subsidise the rendering industry in order to avert the serious environmental threat posed by thousands of animals being abandoned or buried in the countryside, according to an investigating commission.

Later, the development of the rendering industry produced fish and poultry meals and other animal byproducts, available in granules or dry food pellets that ranchers found easier to store, transport and ration.

In the absence of the rendering industry, the cost of waste disposal of waste animal material would be very high and would place a significant economic and environmental burden on areas involved in industrial scale slaughtering.

Initially, the policy had loopholes, and years would pass before they would be plugged-a delay caused in part by the reluc-tance of farmers and the rendering industry to recognize the seriousness of the problem they were facing.

A decision has been taken on this too, and the rendering industry throughout the European Union will have to be reorganized by 1 April 1997 at the latest - so all plants which process animal carcasses will be affected.

The indus-try focused on funding research that would broaden its product base. . . . Past and current projects involve virtually all species, all products produced by the rendering industry, and all disciplines of use or potential use."

Gustavus Swift, Nelson Morris, and Lucius Darling were among the early pioneers of the U.S. rendering industry with their personal backing and/or direct participation in the developing rendering industry.

At the beginning of the 1980s, FPRF-funded studies by University of Nebraska researcher Terry Klopfenstein helped the rendering industry to develop and promote the widespread use of rendered animal protein as a feed ration specifically for cattle.

Finally, the committee concluded that "it would be of great value to exam-ine the activities of the rendering industry in the United States . . . what types of animals (particularly sheep) are rendered, how they are rendered, and where these products go.

The rendering industry's Frank Burnham, for example, argued that the "current BSE scare is due largely to sensationalized stories in the British press-based on speculation not fact-linking BSE in cattle to CJD in humans.

The rendering industry could, however, continue processing "slaugh-tered- animal parts" into feed supplements for pigs, chickens, fish, pets and other animals, and those animals could in turn be converted into protein sup-plements for feeding back to cows-as well as to their own species.

Perhaps I might add that certain programmes are being implemented on a continuing basis: there are, for example, the Structural Fund resources, which can be used to assist Objective 5b or 5a areas, and which could be applied to support the restructuring of the rendering industry in the United Kingdom, for instance, or to promote investment.