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Render is in its 50th year of
serving the global rendering industry.
What began as a mostly West Coast
publication quickly grew to reach across
the United States (US), then Canada, and
eventually around the world. Some of
the challenges that renderers faced in
the early 1970s are still around today—
odor control, encroachment, hiring
dedicated personnel, government
regulations, fleet management, and so
on. Yet, as the industry goes forth, new
issues are arising that not only bring new
challenges, but also opportunities.
In 1978, the book Rendering: The
Invisible Industry was written to provide
a “reasonably comprehensive overview
of an industry which today contributes
more than $2 billion to the GNP gross
national product and which makes major
contributions to present-day society.”
More than four decades later, the US
rendering industry now accounts for $10
billion in annual economic activity and
continues to make major contributions
to society by taking products that would
otherwise be landfilled and repurposing
them into beneficial proteins and fats
that feed a growing livestock and pet
population, “fuel” a booming renewable
fuels industry, and help create many
other goods.
The terms “sustainability” and
“climate” may not have been in vogue
some 50 years ago, but both are now
front and center and show no signs
of fading. These new societal and
governmental demands provide a great
opportunity for renderers to tell their
story of how collecting used cooking
oil from restaurants and animal by-products
consumers do not eat and
safely turning them into feed, fuel, and
oleochemical ingredients are the most
sustainable practices that also help
climate challenges.
As Sharla Ishmael explains in
“Rendering’s Role in the Rest of the Story”
on page 10, livestock’s sustainability
story is not complete unless it includes
the value rendering brings to it, both
economically and environmentally. The
biofuels industry already shares the
benefits of rendered products in its story.
It is time for livestock producers and feed
manufacturers to include rendering’s
valuable role in their stories. R
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