The Pet Industry Needs to be Leashed | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Go to http://dipseastories.com/casket to get an extended 30-day free trial. Go to http://mintmobile.com/casket to get your new wireless plan for just $15 a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for free. Sign up for our Patreon to support what we do! https://www.patreon.com/iilluminaughtii Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a weekly series where bad businesses go to die. The pet industry doesn’t care about your beloved best friend. Certain individuals might, sure, but generally speaking, profits over people applies here, too. Pets are often treated as commodities, kept in poor enclosures, and are in poor health, to boot. From the food to the toys you buy, manufacturers have shown they don’t care about you or your animals. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii’ Sources: https://justpaste.it/7ui7q Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Trauma- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Electronica Punch- Oleksandr Koltsov Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The inflation is hitting everyone pretty hard and pretty much everyone has had to cut back somewhere.
0:11.0	Maybe you're going out to eat way less if at all. Maybe you're painting your nails at home instead of going to a salon. Or maybe you've
0:17.9	canceled your vacation plans and decided to have a staycation instead. But there's one industry that's practically recession proof and it might not be what you think. It's the pet industry.
0:30.0	We will never stop meeting our daily doses of serotonin when our furry
0:36.4	loved ones greet us at the door at the end of a long day to tell us
0:39.3	everything's going to be all right. The pet franchise market is expanding despite the rough
0:44.4	economy and it's predicted to reach 42 billion dollars in a couple years and
0:48.9	that's up from 30 billion in 2020. Pet ownership itself is at a record high and honestly it's not too difficult to see why.
0:57.0	First, there of course are the pandemic pets.
0:59.4	According to a Forbes survey, 78% of pet owners acquired pets during the pandemic. And I know that's kind of
1:05.3	of funky wording. This might mean that if you had a pet already you got another or perhaps you didn't
1:10.5	have one but because we were all locked inside, you decided to go for it.
1:14.6	Either way, the end result is the same.
1:17.0	Many pets were purchased or rescued in recent years, and a lot more money is being spent on them. And it's not just cats and dogs either, but it's more
1:25.3	birds, rabbits, hamsters, lizards, guinea pigs, and fish are all warming their way into
1:30.0	our hearts and homes. Other sources like Pet Product News say that even if the pandemic to our
1:35.0	other sources like Pet Product News say that even if the pandemic pet data may remain a bit controversial or fuzzy so to speak
1:38.5	there's no denying the trauma that had us all holding our furry friends closer.
1:43.6	With all that's happened in the US in recent years, many Americans have found comfort in animals.
1:49.2	A cuddle with the sweetest boy or girl can do a world of good. According to the NCBI, they say,
1:54.7	it mitigates the effects of extreme stress
1:56.8	and social isolation.
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