People concerned about climate change never suggest to reduce the worldwide pet population but maybe they should.
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Most pet food is made from the unwanted scraps/guts left over from processing human food. There are not additional pet food farms - they’re the same farms. Where will the guts go if pets don’t eat it? Cheaper fast food, probably, i.e. more fast food, or waste.
I don’t know that this would reduce anything - just move resources around and probably have other effects that you and I aren’t imagining.
Cats and dogs do require meat to live, unlike humans. Reducing the meat industry will drive up pet food prices, and that may reduce pet ownership. But we better fucking make sure pets are spayed and neutered - doubly so if that ever happens.