Cats can theoretically do just fine on vegan cat food so long as their nutritional needs are met by it’s formula. It’s not available or affordable, however.
Cat food, however, is made from meat byproduct from animals slaughtered for human consumption.
I feed my cats meat out of necessity. That’s rather different than you choosing to end a life for pleasure.
“Local husbandry” doesn’t equate to ethical.
It’s not even about purity tests, we’re all out here trying to do the best we can - meat consumption and generally the way we treat animals is just a huge thing where people like to leave their leftist values at the door.
Imprisonment? My cats would be alive without me, and cats are an invasive species that cause great harm to local bird and other small animal populations. Outdoor cats have far shorter life expectancy outcomes and a lower quality of life. Doing what I can to keep them happy and healthy, while personally doing all I can to not harm animals unnecessarily is hypocritical?
Killing animals for pleasure is somehow humane?
You’re blinded by your preconceptions. There’s no such thing as the humane ending of a life that wants to live. I’m not wealthy, far from it. If I can do it, so can most anyone else living in a post scarcity society like ours. I never claimed you aren’t a leftist, rather that your leftist ideals get ignored when it comes to animals, and you have not expressed anything to change my mind on that.
I buy meat so my cats can survive. You buy it for personal pleasure. There’s a world of difference.
Your mentality that feeding a domestic cat while also being vegan is hypocritical, is at it’s core, because you view veganism as some kind of “purity test” when it isn’t that, and never has been that. It’s about preventing harm to animals as much as is practically possible. We’re imperfect, we make selfish and bad choices. There’s no blanket judgement that someone is a terrible person just because they eat meat. Simply a bad choice. A choice I hope that more people would reflect on, and opt to reduce the suffering their life causes. That’s a huge part of what leftism is about, isn’t it? Equity? For more people to live their lives, not harmed by others? Why should this not apply to other sentient life?
Yeah, you’re an omnivore animal - we evolved that way because it helped us survive. In survival settings, where food is scarce. You exist in a society where you can walk into the grocery store, where foods from around the world are imported and supplements are inexpensive. Much of the food we purchase at the store has already been enriched with varying nutrients.
When you’re buying meat “for nutrition”, you’re choosing to kill an animal for that nutrition when you absolutely have just as affordable options to get that same nutrition, without killing an animal. Because you’re not in the wild, the pressures that cause natural selection to select for an omnivorous diet aren’t applicable to you. You’re choosing suffering, on purpose, then coming up with excuses to make yourself feel good about it. You’re setting your leftism aside, deciding that other animals don’t deserve the same kind of equity you grant to humans, because eating them brings you pleasure.
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Cats can theoretically do just fine on vegan cat food so long as their nutritional needs are met by it’s formula. It’s not available or affordable, however. Cat food, however, is made from meat byproduct from animals slaughtered for human consumption. I feed my cats meat out of necessity. That’s rather different than you choosing to end a life for pleasure. “Local husbandry” doesn’t equate to ethical. It’s not even about purity tests, we’re all out here trying to do the best we can - meat consumption and generally the way we treat animals is just a huge thing where people like to leave their leftist values at the door.
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Imprisonment? My cats would be alive without me, and cats are an invasive species that cause great harm to local bird and other small animal populations. Outdoor cats have far shorter life expectancy outcomes and a lower quality of life. Doing what I can to keep them happy and healthy, while personally doing all I can to not harm animals unnecessarily is hypocritical? Killing animals for pleasure is somehow humane? You’re blinded by your preconceptions. There’s no such thing as the humane ending of a life that wants to live. I’m not wealthy, far from it. If I can do it, so can most anyone else living in a post scarcity society like ours. I never claimed you aren’t a leftist, rather that your leftist ideals get ignored when it comes to animals, and you have not expressed anything to change my mind on that. I buy meat so my cats can survive. You buy it for personal pleasure. There’s a world of difference.
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Your mentality that feeding a domestic cat while also being vegan is hypocritical, is at it’s core, because you view veganism as some kind of “purity test” when it isn’t that, and never has been that. It’s about preventing harm to animals as much as is practically possible. We’re imperfect, we make selfish and bad choices. There’s no blanket judgement that someone is a terrible person just because they eat meat. Simply a bad choice. A choice I hope that more people would reflect on, and opt to reduce the suffering their life causes. That’s a huge part of what leftism is about, isn’t it? Equity? For more people to live their lives, not harmed by others? Why should this not apply to other sentient life?
Yeah, you’re an omnivore animal - we evolved that way because it helped us survive. In survival settings, where food is scarce. You exist in a society where you can walk into the grocery store, where foods from around the world are imported and supplements are inexpensive. Much of the food we purchase at the store has already been enriched with varying nutrients. When you’re buying meat “for nutrition”, you’re choosing to kill an animal for that nutrition when you absolutely have just as affordable options to get that same nutrition, without killing an animal. Because you’re not in the wild, the pressures that cause natural selection to select for an omnivorous diet aren’t applicable to you. You’re choosing suffering, on purpose, then coming up with excuses to make yourself feel good about it. You’re setting your leftism aside, deciding that other animals don’t deserve the same kind of equity you grant to humans, because eating them brings you pleasure.