[dakara]

Channel 4 has a TV programme coming up at 01:45 on Monday 24 November

Programme info.

"Pussies Galore (Nature)
Britain is a nation of cat-lovers: we keep more than seven million as pets, buy 400,000 tonnes of cat food every week, and spend £55 million on cat toys every year. Pussies Galore meets three feline fanatics. Ceri Whitby's documentary was originally shown as part of First Cut"

If my maths is correct, even if every one of these seven million cats is getting its quota, this means that each of these cats is eating 57 kg of food per week.

There must be some mighty fat cats out there somewhere.

This is typical of the wild an completely false information spread by the media.
Can we really believe anything that they say?

[Desmo]

Maybe out of the 400,000 tonnes of cat food, some of the owners eat it?

And no, you can't blindly trust what any of the media says these days.

[dakara]

Originally Posted by Desmo

Maybe out of the 400,000 tonnes of cat food, some of the owners eat it?

And no, you can't blindly trust what any of the media says these days.

Ah yes, good thinking Batman. That could well be true.

[shodan]

Originally Posted by dakara

Channel 4 has a TV programme coming up at 01:45 on Monday 24 November

Programme info.

"Pussies Galore (Nature)
Britain is a nation of cat-lovers: we keep more than seven million as pets, buy 400,000 tonnes of cat food every week, and spend £55 million on cat toys every year. Pussies Galore meets three feline fanatics. Ceri Whitby's documentary was originally shown as part of First Cut"

If my maths is correct, even if every one of these seven million cats is getting its quota, this means that each of these cats is eating 57 kg of food per week.

There must be some mighty fat cats out there somewhere.

This is typical of the wild an completely false information spread by the media.
Can we really believe anything that they say?

Man, you have far too much time on your hands....

[andykn]

It's 400,000 tonnes a year. That sort of simple mistake I'll allow the media. It's the more insidious stuff where what they actually say isn't incorrect but the message they imply is incorrect. Then someone reads the headline and relays the incorrect message, for example on here.