Sustainable cat food from Mars

No, we haven't found new fisheries to exploit on the Red Planet.

Mars, Inc. is the source of sustainable cat food, see the blue fish on the package (left).

Now you can spend your pet food dollars (or euros) on a cat food that doesn't hurt the ocean.

Leaving aside the debate on the sustainability of keeping pets, if you're going to have pets then it's good to have sustainable pet food options.

I'm sure somebody will say that the fish in catfood is better delivered to hungry people, and so it's not sustainable if it's eaten by a cat when people need food. But I don't think cats get the best fish that people want.

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Scuba diving cat

Until today, I thought there were two things that just don't mix--cats and scuba diving.



Oh wait a minute, there's another scuba cat.

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Cats can rot your brain

How would you feel if your brain was rotting away thanks to someone else's pet? Would you care if the pet was cute and cuddly, or would you just want the pet to go away?

This is a real problem, although mostly not for people. Sea otters are being killed by a parasite that causes a brain disease. It's Toxoplasma gondii and it's the reason pregnant women aren't supposed to change cat litter boxes.

Cats appear to shed the parasite eggs in their poop and freshewater runoff carries the eggs into the ocean where they infect and sometimes kill sea otters.

It'll be tough to save sea otters when they're competing with cats for love.

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