[To which extent do dogs, cats and farm animals compete with man in food consumption? (author's transl)].
Comparative calculation shows that approximately 80 million tons of "edible concentrates" which farm animals are fed and approximately 7.5 million tons of equivalent "edible concentrates" which dogs and cats are fed, are potentially lost each year for human consumption in the EC, the USA and Canada. These amounts could meet the nutritional requirements of approximately 400 million "standard citizens". Saving, for instance, 150 million world-citizen food equivalents by considerably reducing the number of domestic and farm animals in the western world will not afford any practical relief in regard to the enormous shortages which can be expected in the future. The share of cats and dogs in this consumption, being less than 10 per cent, is insignificant. Possible trebling of the population in the developing countries during the next fifty years will give rise to problems of an entirely different order of magnitude.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D002170:Canada; D002415:Cats; D002417:Cattle; D003906:Developing Countries; D004285:Dogs; D005060:Europe; D005523:Food Supply; D006801:Humans; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009751:Nutritional Requirements; D011158:Population Growth; D014481:United States
In hoeverre zijn honden, katten en landbouwhuisdieren voedselconcurrenten voor de mens?