The meat may be non-human grade, basically waste products from factory farming that sold extremely cheaply. So I doubt it increases the number of animals killed as much as you say.
Very true—I wasn’t sure what the difference would be between non-by-product and by-product consumption. I suspect it’s somewhere between what I stated and no effect, so this estimate could be an upper bound.
At least the more expensive cat food can contain actual muscle, and I know someone who says it tastes pretty good. But dog food is many times grain-based with flavor added.
Seems that buying really cheap pet food might be an effective approach at reducing the farm animal suffering caused by pet ownership.
An alternative and inconsistent approach would be to buy pet food made from beef, which arguably causes the least amount of farm animal suffering and farm animals killed.
The meat may be non-human grade, basically waste products from factory farming that sold extremely cheaply. So I doubt it increases the number of animals killed as much as you say.
Very true—I wasn’t sure what the difference would be between non-by-product and by-product consumption. I suspect it’s somewhere between what I stated and no effect, so this estimate could be an upper bound.
At least the more expensive cat food can contain actual muscle, and I know someone who says it tastes pretty good. But dog food is many times grain-based with flavor added.
Seems that buying really cheap pet food might be an effective approach at reducing the farm animal suffering caused by pet ownership.
An alternative and inconsistent approach would be to buy pet food made from beef, which arguably causes the least amount of farm animal suffering and farm animals killed.