In December, a forum in Beijing focused on the health, public security, and moral
impacts of the dog meat trade.
Not exact matches
A UCLA study has found that
dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent
of the environmental
impact of meat consumption in the United States.
In a paper publishing Aug. 2 in the journal PLOS One, Okin says he found that cats and
dogs are responsible for 25 to 30 percent
of the environmental
impact of meat consumption in the United States.
Okin calculated that
meat - eating by
dogs and cats creates the equivalent
of about 64 million tons
of carbon dioxide a year, which has about the same climate
impact as a year's worth
of driving from 13.6 million cars.
The argument that
dogs are designed by their evolutionary history to eat raw
meat based diets is riddled with errors and fallacies and ignores the
impact of tens
of thousands
of years
of domestication and cohabitation with humans on the physiology
of our canine friends.