Sentences with phrase «widespread pet industry»

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«While annual spending for the pet industry is reported each year, this is the first time that anyone has looked at the widespread impact of the pet industry as a whole on the U.S. economy,» said Dr. Terry L. Clower, Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government and Director of its Center on Regional Analysis, who headed the study.

Now those proposals are facing widespread opposition from the same groups who fought the dog law last year: the PVMA, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council, which represents pet stores, the Sportsmen's Alliance, Republican members of the House Agriculture Committee and Sen. Michael Brubaker — chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee - whose committee created the board to appease the aforementioned groups in 2008.

The practice is so widespread that there is already a term for it: greenwashing, and it is not exclusive to the pet industry.

Various technological advances and increased understanding about the biology of fish throughout this extensive history of fishkeeping led to a booming industry by the mid-1960s, at which point automatic filters to cycle water, improved waterproofing in tanks, and commercial fish breeding were all well - established and easily accessible through widespread pet retail stores and distributors.

Case in point: the widespread contamination of melamine (a chemical used in the production of plastics, which imitates protein) rocked the pet food industry not so long ago, and led to thousands of deaths and illnesses.