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Dogs and Cats. Our holy animals?
I agree with so much of what is being said. Feeding over a billion people is something that as Americans -- and often wasteful Americans -- we have little right to pedantry.
However, what is not being said here, and something that I've never read before is a discussion/dissection of how our love, admiration and respect of dogs and cats in America seems to parallel a sort of religious deification. India has a number of holy animals -- cows, elephants, rats -- and the same can be said for other countries. Just throwing it out there, but can something similar be said for our hallowed treatment of dogs and cats?