GA Pet Food

GA Pet Food is a manufacturer of premium-quality pet food and a local business within the village of Bretherton and Chorley Borough Council, which has grown out of local farming roots.

GA Pet Food sources its meat protein ingredients as by-products from the human food chain, recycling food that is surplus to human consumption, thereby forming an environmentally sustainable business. However, to cook and recover meat protein from these animal by-products, GA Pet Food uses significant amounts of heat and power, consuming approximately twelve times more energy than the rest of Bretherton Parish combined. GA Pet Food’s operations account for around 23 per cent of all industrial and commercial carbon emissions within Chorley Borough.

GA Pet Food aims to do everything it can, as quickly as it can, to produce pet food in a sustainable and carbon-neutral way. The company has pledged to halve its carbon emissions every decade in order to reach net zero. Shifting to generating its own zero-carbon energy from wind and solar will also enable GA Pet Food to reduce and stabilise its energy costs and safeguard the future of the business and the local people it employs.