Clearly the question is theoretical, borne out of a recent conversation with a friend who expressed her disagreement on the billion dollar a year spent on pet care in the US.

At the same time, she acknowledged it’s also a matter of having the freedom to pursue that happiness that we all work hard to achieve and if caring for an animal serves that purpose, no one has the right to take that away.

Yet she can’t help but wonder as to how many children could that billion bucks be helped if people would forego pleasure in taking care of animals and focus them instead on maybe, human orphans?

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