Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Your cat is killing the planet

Save the planet: Get rid of your cat

Hey, we love a good anti-cat article as much as the next dog and rat person, and this one is pretty comprehensive. For example (quoting the New York Times):

Coco, like most American cats, ate fish. And a great deal of them — more in a year than the average African human, according to Jason Clay at the World Wildlife Fund. And unlike the chicken or beef Coco also gobbled up, all those fish were wild animals, scooped out of the sea and flown thousands of carbon-belching miles to reach his little blue bowl....

The pet food industry now uses about 10 percent of the global supply of forage fish.
Yes, your cat has an enormous carbon footprint. Unless you can train it to start planting trees, it has to go.

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