Americans spend $13 billion annually on pet food and $12 billion on cosmetics, and Europeans spend $11 billion on ice cream. Your text points out that each of these, separately,

A) yields sufficient tax dollars to run numerous U.S. school districts
B) would be enough to "bail out" struggling sectors of our economy or large corporations facing bankruptcy
C) could provide worldwide services such as health care and nutrition, water and sanitation, or education.
D) requires so many resources to produce and creates so much waste, that they are great contributors to global warming and other environmental problems.


Answer: C

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