A Dog's Life? Yes please!
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The global pet food industry is predicted to be worth nearly $100bn by 2022. Premium pet food has become big business. Sheila Dillon asks whether we've gone too far in pampering our pooches with expensive treats. We hear from Kevin Glynn and David Nolan, co-founders of food delivery service, Butternut Box. Butcher John Mettrick tells us about the raw pet food he makes for dogs and we peruse the menu at a high-end brunch for canines at M Restaurant in London.
(Photo: Three dogs behind a birthday cake surrounded by balloons. Credit: Getty images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa. |
| 0:06.5 | In this edition, A Dog's Life? Yes, please. |
| 0:09.7 | The reason I joined was to bring my dog Percy. |
| 0:14.0 | Every Saturday we come for Doggy Brunch. |
| 0:16.5 | As soon as he walks in, they know they need to bring him a bowl of iced water. |
| 0:20.9 | The pet food business is booming globally. |
| 0:24.4 | We find out what's driving it. |
| 0:26.6 | This is really because of one trend, which the industry calls pet humanisation. |
| 0:31.7 | And so they equate their love to their spending on their pets. |
| 0:36.1 | That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:41.4 | How much do we love our pets? Well, how about $100 billion worth of love? Because that's how |
| 0:48.9 | valuable the global pet food market is projected to become in 2022, according to a report by the US-based |
| 0:55.5 | Research House Grand View. Driving that growth, it says, is not just lavish spending on pets |
| 1:00.9 | in the developed world, but also the increasing number of smaller nuclear family units in the |
| 1:06.7 | emerging economies of the Asia-Pacific region, particularly China, India, Vietnam and Indonesia. |
| 1:12.8 | In the UK, meanwhile, research from Mintil found that over half of pet care buyers would rather |
| 1:18.2 | cut back spending on themselves than on their pets, which has led to all sorts of new entrants |
| 1:24.2 | in the pet food business. Sheila Dillon has this report. |
| 1:30.7 | Hi, my name is David Nolan, and I'm one of the co-founders at Buttern Upbox. |
| 1:35.1 | Hi, I'm Kevin Glynn, also one of the co-founders of Bonner Unparks. |
| 1:39.0 | So this is the production process, beginning with the raw ingredients. |
| 1:44.1 | Yeah, so first of all, we take our meat and we mince our meat. |
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