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Spent 5 years in rural Zambia before coming back to Oz last year... what makes me sick now is the entire aisle for pet food we have in every Coles or Woolies or the surgery undertaken on Bondi Vet each week. I like animals, but I have seen too many people personally who have died from their poverty. Just the value of one tin of pet food per week... it could be the difference between affording medicine or not... between eating or not... between having food or not...
I've eaten mice, moles, termites, grasshoppers, and everything else that the locals ate because they had to ... then I look at the packaging and advertising that we put into pet food in this country.
We can point fingers at the ultra rich, but from the perspective of someone in rural Zambia everyone of us on this forum would be classed as ultra rich. Anyone who can spend more money on their pet than a villager can afford on their entire family is ultra rich.
Sorry if I put a dampener on it!
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