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**unishisse** · 03-22-2007, 07:31 PM

That is a lot of food.

I love animals, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just wonder what would happen if all of the money spent on pet food was used to buy food for hungry people.

That reminds me of a magazine article a while back. Sorry, can't pinpoint the time or exact place, but two teenagers (brothers I think), orphaned victims of one of the ethnic wars in Africa, were resettled in upper Midwest America.

They were take to a local supermarket, and walked wide-eyed up and down the aisles, stocked with an endless variety of food. At one aisle, one of them asked what sort of food this was. When told it was all food for dogs and cats, he considered for a moment, then asked:

"What is the job of dogs and cats in America?"

I never forgot that.

03-22-2007, 07:31 PM	#6
unishisse Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 431 Senior Member	That is a lot of food. I love animals, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I just wonder what would happen if all of the money spent on pet food was used to buy food for hungry people. That reminds me of a magazine article a while back. Sorry, can't pinpoint the time or exact place, but two teenagers (brothers I think), orphaned victims of one of the ethnic wars in Africa, were resettled in upper Midwest America. They were take to a local supermarket, and walked wide-eyed up and down the aisles, stocked with an endless variety of food. At one aisle, one of them asked what sort of food this was. When told it was all food for dogs and cats, he considered for a moment, then asked: "What is the job of dogs and cats in America?" I never forgot that.
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