At this point, it’s old news that meat is environmentally unsustainable and needs to be reduced if we have any chance of remaining below 1.5 degrees of global warming. Most of this discourse focuses on humans eating meat. But there’s another factor that’s critical to this conversation: our companion animals, and the environmental impact of pet food.
There are at least 78 million dogs and 58 million pet cats in the United States today, and between 60 to 70 percent of households have at least one pet. Worldwide, we’re talking about a pet population in the 10 digits. That’s a