Cats and dogs and sheep and cows

[lostsoixanteneuf]

A friend of mine in pet food R&D has said that one in five farm animals goes for pet food. If this is true is there not a better way of using the animals to feed starving people or maybe tax pet ownership to try and balance things out a little better.

[Yazza54]

Sheep make good lovers, could hire them out

[Superficial]

lostsoixanteneuf said:

A friend of mine in pet food R&D has said that one in five farm animals goes for pet food. If this is true is there not a better way of using the animals to feed starving people or maybe tax pet ownership to try and balance things out a little better.

Do you not think we get taxed enough in this country for things we enjoy?

[lostsoixanteneuf]

maybe just keep sheep as pets cut out the middle man

[Simpo Two]

lostsoixanteneuf said:

A friend of mine in pet food R&D has said that one in five farm animals goes for pet food. If this is true is there not a better way of using the animals to feed starving people or maybe tax pet ownership to try and balance things out a little better.

On a purely biological front, you could feed newly-dead people to the starving. It's only meat, and what better than recycled meat? Anything else is just morals and ethics, and you can't eat those.

[lostsoixanteneuf]

Simpo Two said:

lostsoixanteneuf said:

A friend of mine in pet food R&D has said that one in five farm animals goes for pet food. If this is true is there not a better way of using the animals to feed starving people or maybe tax pet ownership to try and balance things out a little better.

On a purely biological front, you could feed newly-dead people to the starving. It's only meat, and what better than recycled meat? Anything else is just morals and ethics, and you can't eat those.

I like your thinking maybe it could go like this
animals - people - pets - animals and so on

[Cotty]

Simpo Two said:

On a purely biological front, you could feed newly-dead people to the starving. It's only meat, and what better than recycled meat? Anything else is just morals and ethics, and you can't eat those.

Have you seen Soylent Green?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

[Simpo Two]

Cotty said:

Simpo Two said:

On a purely biological front, you could feed newly-dead people to the starving. It's only meat, and what better than recycled meat? Anything else is just morals and ethics, and you can't eat those.

Have you seen Soylent Green?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

No, just extrapolating. If we don't control the earth's population (and we can't) then the forces of nature will take over and do it for us, one way or another and whether we like it or not.

[GTIR]

It's ok, Cameron will make sure we only have two kids each, even if you don't want any.

I couldn't eat that many tbh.

[Fatboy]

GTIR said:

It's ok, Cameron will make sure we only have two kids each, even if you don't want any.

I couldn't eat that many tbh.

It's all down to preparation.

[Gretchen]

lostsoixanteneuf said:

A friend of mine in pet food R&D has said that one in five farm animals goes for pet food. If this is true is there not a better way of using the animals to feed starving people or maybe tax pet ownership to try and balance things out a little better.

If the animal (or human) has died of natural causes I think human consumption is to be avoided. There would be far too many risks, Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease (Mad Cow) being one.