‘WET DOG FOOD KILLING PLANET’
FEEDING a dog on wet food only could produce as much carbon dioxide as driving 30,000 miles a year.
A wet diet for pets generates a huge amount of CO2 compared to a dry diet, boffins found.
Professor Marcio Brunetto and colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil studied 618 dog diets and 320 cat diets. They discovered that a 10kg pet consuming on average 534 calories a day would be responsible for 828.37kgs of CO2 per year. Those fed a dry diet produced just 6,541kg.
The experts said that owners who switch their pets to dry food can feed them more sustainably, while still providing enough nutrients and calories.