Atlantic Article - The Deadstock Dilemma; Our Toxic Meat Waste

By James McWilliams
August 11, 2010

"For all the environmental angst being expressed over livestock, we rarely mention its counterpart: deadstock. Most of a slaughtered farm animal cannot be transformed into edible flesh. About 60 percent of it—offal, bones, tendons, blood, and plasma—becomes abattoir waste and, as such, has to be either recycled or disposed of. Despite our earnest efforts to better understand our increasingly complex food system, deadstock reminds us that the highest costs of food production are often hidden in places we rarely venture as we track our food's journeys from farm to fork...."

http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2010/08/the-deadstock-dilemma-our-toxic-meat-waste/61191/