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3 years of what only Americans spend just on their pets could end world hunger semi-permanently > In 2020, $103.6 billion was spent on our pets in the U.S. ht
by kgin 5y ago
3 years of what only Americans spend just on their pets could end world hunger semi-permanently
> In 2020, $103.6 billion was spent on our pets in the U.S.
https://www.americanpetproducts.org/press_industrytrends.asp https://www.americanpetproducts.org/press_industrytrends.asp
> It would cost just $330 billion to end global hunger by 2030
https://www.fastcompany.com/90564107/it-would-cost-just-330-billion-to-end-global-hunger-by-2030 https://www.fastcompany.com/90564107/it-would-cost-just-330-...
- westpfelia 5y agothe problem with this argument is you're pinning solving a major world problem on the masses. Why have Americans not spend 103 billion a year on their pets when Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos are much more equipped to do just that. Instead were trying to go the other direction and not let Amazon employees unionize. Saying things like that makes you sound like when ExxonMobil Publishes papers on how if Americans ate 150 less grams of beef a year we could turn around global warming.
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- usrusr 5y agoPets consume more nutrients than Gates and Bezos combined. I'm quite sure that GP didn't mean it that way, but "the world" isn't a scale where you can simply ignore supply and extrapolate from current prices hoping that the result won't be far off.