Making Soap and Cat Food Out of Meat Waste

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Here is a test slab of soap made from recycled meat waste.
Here is a test slab of soap made from recycled meat waste.
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The meat waste can also be recycled for your cat's enjoyment by making some homemade cat food.
The meat waste can also be recycled for your cat's enjoyment by making some homemade cat food.

Here’s one way that you can have your cake . . . and let your cat eat, too!

It’s easy enough, I suppose, to see a connection between hungry cats and the meat department of your local supermarket . . . but how about comprehending the idea of making soap from cat food? 

Well, my wife Lenore and I found that these things can be interrelated . . . after we watched our butcher’s assistant clean up at the family market one evening. We noted that the electric meat saw regularly dropped “meat dust” on the floor. A mixture of beef, lamb, pork, poultry, and fish, it was rather too fatty and finely ground to be used for human consumption, and was usually swept up and thrown away. When Lenore and I showed interest, we were invited to take as much as we wanted.

Rendering the Works 

  • Published on Nov 1, 1983
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