A prophetic story from The Onion in 2003 seems to be coming true: our pets and even lab and wild animals are becoming obese alongside humans:
Amid a barrage of commercials for new diet dog and cat foods, many owners say that their pets are being held to impossibly high animal-body standards perpetrated by the media. "I don't care what anyone says, my Sassy looks good," said Janice Guswhite.
Back in the non-satirical world, the findings are alarming. A study of over 20,000 animals
from 12 different populations, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that over the last 20 years the animals in every population they studied have been growing significantly tubbier, paralleling the human obesity epidemic. Not only pets are fattening up--the group also studied wild animals living near humans and animals living in labs and zoos. All of them have been chubbing-out over the last ...
