Sustainability is a buzzword worldwide, but it is sometimes real. Beef’s sustainability is demonstrable after animals are harvested, considering only half of what a beef carcass yields is considered consumable in the U.S. Carrie Veselka’s recap of a Cattlemen’s College session about how beef byproducts are used and developed provides proof that “they use everything but the moo.”
Source: Progressive Cattle, November 2021. Link. As the “original recyclers,” the rendering industry sequesters five times as many greenhouse gases as it produces.”
We’ve already gone beyond [net zero], so I guess where we need to go now is benchmarking to improve upon that,” Swisher said.
INSIGHTS: The rendered ingredients story has been a sound message behind the scenes in the beef industry forever. Most cattle raisers don’t even realize how important it is. Share this article with customers and use the resources from the North American Renderers Association here to help tell the beef industry’s sustainability story. It’s a great one. It’s also a great story for companion animal practitioners and owners.