People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food those by-products.
In any case decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.