@geoffvro 128698 wrote:
FYI: In many cases, dead animal carcasses, including euthanized cats and dogs are sent to rendering plants where they are…ahem… recycled.
This is true, and when the rendering plant comes to pick up your dead horse they also charge an arm and a leg to do so.
Then they make soap for your face out of it and food for chickens and all sorts of animals.
What was that movie – Soylent Green?
There have been outbreaks of diseases with animals fed with the (rendered) remains of our dead (and often diseased) pets – including mad cow disease if I remember correctly.
But giving your horse or pet a decent burial is illegal, unless, of course, you can pay for a plot in an animal graveyard.