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Originally Posted by midgetlover  USA you are so wrong. I worked rendering for years i know how it runs and what they use the water for.
The daf tanks yes remove the grease and tallow from the water and the water is sent to the waste water dept. and then it is sent back thru the system to reuse on the cattle.
Drive buy National on the west side is a new building specifically for water and the reverse osmosis water system that they use there. It is on the far west side of the plant east side off of the Underpass road. Kill floor side.
They reuse the same water over and over again.
They pig the lines as a deal they made with the city. The water from the plant is not allowed to go into the local sewer system IF any waste from the plant hits a city line it MUST be shut down out of contamination. After the water has gone thru the waste removal system of the plant it runs to small south recirc station and back to the plant. It is pigged to remove any "possible" waste they may have gone thru that specific line. National also treats their own water same as Cargill.
That is not a hot water tank as you say it is called a DAF tank which stores untreated water until it goes thru waste water to be reused. There are boards that run over the top to remove grease and tallow from the water. The hot water tanks are in the boiler room not outside tanks. Where the hot water is sent to other boilers around the plant such as rendering to supply steam to the cookers and keep the tallow melted and not clog up the lines it also feeds the presses that push product thru the rendering process to be seperated and sent to its various locations. Tallow goes to the tallow birds and sent to a seperate tank to later be shipped mainly in rail cars.
Those are not emergency parts places. IBT has a contract to supply parts to the plants around SW Ks. Curtis also supplies most of their gears and shafts for motors and gearboxes. Young Electric is there every weekend at Cargill as is Stovers (i think that is Nationals Contractor) at National. Those arent tokens to our other companies in town. It is 1 company helping another. Neil Shelton at Cargill was very instrumental in hirng Young Electric as its ONLY electrical contractor because of its local ties and availability. Since the Curtis deal has fell thru AGAIN National Beef is buying their own C&C machines and producing MORE jobs to make their own parts and it is a skilled position nto some average joe will get that position which will be in the old WW building along with the project crew.
Im glad you didnt like the meat and im sure since that was sucha bad experience you wont be buying any more hamburger from the stores around town or steaks. It comes from the same place.
I dont enjoy the meat either from the plants. If you ever get a chance and you are heading to Denver or Colorado Springs get off on the I70 and 24 junction in Limon Colorado and eat at the McDonalds, Arbys, Dennys or the truck stop. They have a plant there that only kills cattle that are organic grain fed, no antibiotics or steroids and it will blow you away th purity of the meat. The meat is then sent to its processing plant in Denver and distributed from there. Incredible and that how meat should be.
Just wanted to throw in the last statement.
Dodge needs the money and the employment offered by both plants. |
I understand the operation of a packing plant alot more than you think! There is no way you can use contaminated water, except to maybe wash down the pens, or something to that effect. If you are using wastewater to process the "food product", then it must be treated by numerous processes, plus sanitized and sterilized; all of which costs money! Now, it is a possibility that they could be using the RO reject water for processing, however it would have alot of mineral impurities in it.
Also, very familiar with Coleman Natural Products in Colorado.
As for suppliers, yep they probably buy a token amount, as I already said; however the main amount comes from out of town!
As for meat, I either raise my own or buy from friends. One trip through a packing plant will convince you of that scenario!