
Animal welfare, human wellbeing and planetary health
Sydney Ideas
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Pet Food - Should We Be Keeping Carnivores as Pets?
The pet food industry draws its ingredients from the same chicken farms and wheat production that we ourselves are eating. If feeding meat is the problem, should we be trying to change the diets of our pets or should we be keeping carnivores as pets at all? One of the biggest growing welfare concerns in pet animals is actually obesity and obesity related diseases. So there's quite a lot of aspects there that we need to consider.
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