![]() ![]() And it all has to go somewhere - America’s pets produce about 5.1 million tons of feces in a year, as much as 90 million Americans. ![]() If Americans’ 163 million Fidos and Felixes comprised a separate country, their fluffy nation would rank fifth in global meat consumption, Okin calculated, behind only Russia, Brazil, the United States and China. In a paper published today in the journal PLOS One, Okin says he found that cats and dogs are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States.
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