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Fat Cats and the "Crisis" of the Day

Feb. 22, 2011

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal punched me in the face. It read "Fat Pets: A Growing Problem". America is in a funk to be sure. Unemployment is way too high. Government and household budgets are a mess. Education quality is diminishing. ...

Andrew R. Thomas Blog

The front page of today's Wall Street Journal punched me in the face. It read "Fat Pets: A Growing Problem".

America is in a funk to be sure.

Unemployment is way too high. Government and household budgets are a mess. Education quality is diminishing. And, now, Rover is facing a swollen heart and gout.

Still, if an emerging "crisis" is that our pets and their owners- eat too much, things can't really be that bad; especially on a planet where more than 1.5 billion people went to bed hungry last night and will so again this evening.

About the Author

Andrew R. Thomas Blog | Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business

Andrew R. Thomas, Ph.D., is associate professor of marketing and international business at the University of Akron; and, a member of the core faculty at the International School of Management in Paris, France.

He is a bestselling business author/editor, whose 23 books include, most recently, American Shale Energy and the Global Economy: Business and Geopolitical Implications of the Fracking Revolution, The Customer Trap: How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake in Business, Global Supply Chain Security, The Final Journey of the Saturn V, and Soft Landing: Airline Industry Strategy, Service and Safety.

His book The Distribution Trap was awarded the Berry-American Marketing Association Prize for the Best Marketing Book of 2010. Another work, Direct Marketing in Action, was a finalist for the same award in 2008.

Andrew is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation Security and a regularly featured analyst for media outlets around the world.

He has traveled to and conducted business in 120 countries on all seven continents.