Where Do the DEAD Bodies of All Those Innocent, Homeless Companion Animals Go After Being Killed at One of the Six LA City Death Camps? D & D Disposal (aka)

West Coast Rendering 4105 Bandini Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90023 323-261-4176
  

ADL-LA Activists followed a South Central "Shelter" garbage truck filled with the dead bodies of cats, dogs, puppies, kittens, songbirds, and wildlife. These garbage trucks filled with these poor, miserable animals are taken to a disposal plant where they are dumped on the ground in dead piles, then ground up into products such as lipstick, cement and even pet food. We have interspersed the quotes below with some of the pictures we were able to take in order to show you what Ed Boks, Villa-La Grossa and the City of LA keeps so hush-hush. 

T414 Writes: “Thousands of bodies- the dead dogs, cats, puppies and kittens, as well as wildlife like birds, squirrels, etc., are taken from the six shelters to a waste disposal company (renderers.) There are green LA city trash trucks which go to each of the shelters and pick up the dead bodies. The trucks comes once, twice, three times per day picking up the corpses. 

One day when I was volunteering, the gate was accidentally left open so what was behind it could be seen. There were dead bodies strewn all over --dogs which 5 minutes prior had been happy, tail wagging love bugs, now stone cold corpses; and the stench of corpses was awful-it smelled of death. Some of the bodies were in a huge freezer and when the green trash truck came it backed up to this metal door and you could hear the thump, thump, thump of the bodies as they were dumped into the truck. All of this is normally hidden from view; it's in the back of the buildings where no one goes and no one can see.”

Ed Boks'/Villaraigosa's murdered victims 

I 121 Writes: “Thousands of dead dogs and cats from the LA City Animal Shelters go to “D & D Disposal Company", a rendering plant in LA. The bodies are dumped into the rendering vats, including their flea collars, ID tags and a variety of powerful drugs and poisons used to kill them at the shelters. 
The city of Los Angeles sends over 200 tons of euthanized (murdered) pets and wildlife to this 'waste' disposal plant every month, (more than any other city shelter system in the Nation.) The rendering plant is a large investor/maker of commercial Pet foods with MEAT by-products...MEAT by-products should just state the truth; Los Angeles City's HOMELESS PETS.

“It's not illegal, although most progressive animal control facilities do not ‘render” their homeless animals. Many grocery store pet food brands use rendered meat, including Nutro, Ken-L-Ration and Pro-Plan. The rendering plant is one of many different suppliers of ingredients for pet food, and the key contract for the city of LA Animal Services 'waste disposal.'

”The US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is aware of the use of rendered dogs and cats in pet foods but has stated: ‘CVM has not acted to specifically prohibit the rendering of pets; however, that is not to say that the practice of using this material in pet food is condoned by the CVM.’---------“

Picture taken at D & D Disposal right before five thugs ran after the activists trying to confiscate their camera. 

Online article on ‘rendering’ -(ADL NOTES IN PARENTHESIS.) "The city of Los Angeles sends 200 tons of euthanized (we call them executed) cats and dogs to a Waste and Rendering Company in Vernon near Los Angeles every month, according to Chuck Ellis, a spokesman for the city's 'Sanitation Department.' (Murdered, homeless pets are considered 'garbage' by our Mayor and Boks.)

The industry's revenues amount to $2.4 billion a year. After trucks deliver the 'wastes' (homeless pets who were killed in the city shelters) to the plants, the material is minced and fed into a vessel where it is steam-cooked to 250 degrees or more and then the stew is cooked for 20 to 90 minutes, Mr. Blanton said. In the resulting mash, heavier material drops to the bottom and the lighter stuff floats to the top. Fat is siphoned off the top, filtered and sent through centrifuges to further refine it, Mr. Blanton said. 

Chemical manufacturers turn much of it into fatty acids for lubricants, lipstick, cement, polish, inks and waxes. Other fractions including gelatinous layers, tallow and grease, go into thousands of products, including soaps, candles, and gummy candies. The heavier protein material on the bottom goes through a separate process Mr. Blanton said. It is dried, squeezed to remove more fat and dried again. The resulting powder is the major ingredient in pet food. It is a cannibalistic practice that has proved highly profitable for rendering companies. 

M119 Writes: “THE CITY pays the Waste/Rendering company more than $60-$80,000 a year to accept the bodies of these pets. The Sanitation Division of the Public Works Department (garbage trucks) takes the bodies there. The City spends over $7200 a month to have the bodies taken and chopped and minced into pet food for other dogs/ cats to eat as well as other products. Many cities don’t allow this to occur to their homeless animals, but here under Villaraigosa/Boks, this still continues.

A 101 WRITES: “The shelters claim that they have to pay the renderers to take away the dead animal bodies. But I think that's another lie the shelters tell. The rendering business is a multi-billion dollar one. Many people suspect that the shelters make money off the dead bodies--there is probably more money in selling the dead bodies than in adopting out the dogs/cats. Selling a dead body is pure profit. Keep in mind that to figure out why some practice or policy stays in place (in this case, killing animals)" follow the money"--they probably want to keep killing the animals because there's money in it. I think that's the bottom line ultimately. 

“The Department of Animal Services seeks to justify this mass killing with stories of "overpopulation", animals being "unadoptable", animals who they pretend are "suffering" and in need of being killed; it’s all such a lie. Most of the animals in the shelters that are killed are happy and wagging their tails, waiting desperately to be taken home by someone." 

One of the thugs who chased activists and tried to grab their camera

A 222 Writes: “I've read from some sources that the renderers pay for each carcass .The shelters of course deny this claiming that the shelters have to pay the renderers thousands of dollars per year to cart away the carcasses. I don't believe that; rendering is big business, and all businesses pay money for their ’raw material.’

“On the other hand, if the shelters are indeed paying the renderers thousands of dollars per year to grind up these animals with tax payers money, then they are doing this because it is easier for an incompetent, lazy Department to pay to have all these poor dead pets taken away and ground up, then to make any real attempts at adopting them out. 

" To make real attempts at getting shelter animals adopted takes creativity, pro-activity and knowledge; something Boks/Villaraigosa and the Department of LA Animal Services is sorely lacking.”

E 199 Writes: “I AM NOT SURE IF THIS IS STILL THE WAY IT WORKS, BUT SHELTERS USED TO GET PAID BY THE RENDERING COMPANY TO PICK UP A CERTAIN NUMBER OF POUNDS PER TRUCKLOAD; IF THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH WEIGHT THEN THE SHELTER HAD TO PAY THE COMPANY TO PICK THEM UP.... THIS HAPPENED TO ME ONE TIME...I HAD A ‘HOLD’ ON A DOG THAT I WAS GOING TO COME AND RESCUE, BUT THE SHELTER WAS A HUNDRED POUNDS SHY OF THEIR AMOUNT NEEDED SO THEY KILLED HER. THIS INFO CAME FROM A PERSON WHO WORKED AT THE SHELTER, SO I COULD NOT CONFRONT THEM OR THIS PERSON WOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED.” 

Q 212 Writes: “It makes no sense at all that when the city can MAKE money adopting out shelter animals, they are instead paying a rendering company large amounts of money to cart away the dead bodies. It's because the shelter system doesn't do the things necessary to find these animals homes. LAAS and it's employees are lazy, disorganized and totally incompetent. 

"We hear from the paid employees in our city shelters that 'We are not allowed to call rescue organizations on the dogs/cats in our shelters' or 'We don't have time to call rescue organizations to save these dogs/cats.' It's not that they don't have the time, it's because they are lazy, irresponsible and uncaring. That's the bottom line." 

T589 Writes: “You know, through the years we've all heard. . .'they'd rather kill them than save them' in referring to the LA city shelter system. Is it at all possible that the killing is about money? How much are the shelters getting paid for this/or getting a kick back? The Department of Animal Services, gets paid when an animal is dumped by the owner at the shelter, gets paid by rescuers to save the animals who the Department would rather kill, provides the very minimal in the way of food and practically NOTHING in the way of medical treatment for the animals in their care, and then . . . . . get paid for the bodies of the ones not adopted.” 

ADL-LA Notes: The city should be charging a lot more then five dollars for people to dump their pets at the shelters (more progressive shelters and humane societies do this.) By paying a higher fee, this discourages people from simply 'dumping' their pets at the shelter and the shelters could then use this money for educational purposes like offering people alternatives to dumping their pets, helping them learn how to train and co-exist with their pets (instead of getting frustrated and bringing them to the shelter to be killed because they don't know how to house train them properly,) etc. But of course under Stuckey, that would be way too progressive and creative. It just proves that it all filters down from the top. And when the top stinks, the poor animals pay the price with their lives.

A 222 Writes: “We always feel ill when we see the green trucks come to the shelters, but of course the shelters do their best to hide it from the volunteers/rescuers as well as the public. It is well known that parts of dog and cat carcasses are made into countertops and cement products, in addition to pet food.”

I 121Writes: “ Even though they deny it, it is economically possible for them (the renderering plant) to pay around .10 cents per pound to the shelters for their dead animals. Here is a calculation: lets say the city gives them 110,000 animals per year. Average 10 pounds per animal so you get 110,000 x 10 =1,100,000. If you than assume they pay up to .10 cents per pound that equals the rendering company paying the city $110,000 annually. Even if you make it .5 cents it's $55,000 annually.” 

Q 787 Writes:" The fact is, that the city is paying a HEFTY sum for these poor animals to be rendered into lipstick, cement, countertops and pet food; and it's simply egregious. No progressive shelter does this any longer."

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