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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: Pet Nation!
Description: Mark Cushing, CEO, Animal Policy Group & Author, Â Pet Nation
How did the United States become a pet nation?
On a recent flight from New Orleans, my wife pointed to four companion animals that were visible from where we were seated.  And when one is buckled into a seat on an airplane one’s vision is pretty limited.  There must have been more animals aboard that flight!
Holy Smokes!!! Our pets are now flying with us!
In the past two decades the population of pets in the United States has n...