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About 100 million pigs, 35 million cattle, 1.6 billion turkeys and 8 billion chickens are slaughtered and processed each year in the United States. The USDA requires facilities that process these meats to use large volumes of clean water to continuously rinse the meats as they are cut and packaged. These large volumes of water contain extremely high levels of protein and fat that are later removed by using conventional but highly efficient wastewater processing methods. The result of these processes is a cleansed wastewater and a co