There are approximately 70 million domestic dogs and 74 million domestic cats in the United States. The next closest country in domestic dogs is Brazil, which has less than half as many as the United States of America. With so many domesticated animals in the United States, the pet food industry has grown into a billion-dollar business. Consider, if America’s dogs and cats were their own country, their meat consumption would rank fifth in the world. As the public grows more aware of the environmental consequences of meat consumption, people have been seeking alternative ways to incorporate protein in their
Dogs: Rethinking the status quo of nutrition as seen on The Hippocratic Post.