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Originally Posted by Ronald Brak
Are our fat pets an indication that our culture's entire attitude towards food has changed?
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Excellent question.
However, since they're not rationally intelligent beings, your hypothesis is highly doubtful.
It's far more likely that they're exposed to the same or similar xenohormones we are, and that's affecting their metabolisms the same way it's affecting human metabolisms, resulting in lethargy and obesity.
I don't see nearly the obesity in other countries as I do in the US, and come to think of it (if memory serves me correctly), this probably holds true for animals as well as humans.
It would be an interesting study, seeing if obesity among humans throughout developed nations correllates with obesity of their animals (indicating poor feeding choices), or merely among certain regions (indicating a possible external cause for both humans and their pets).