What happened in the vegan community?

I hadn’t heard about any of this until seeing that ToS post.

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    153 months ago

    sure. but the above post stated with supplements. so if the food is palatable and nutritional to the cat, then what does it matter?

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      233 months ago

      Why have an animal to.torture it? Get a parrot of a fish then. Don’t adopt an animal, that can’t understand, and push stupid human values to it. A person that says wants to “protect” animal should respect nature. but you know… vegans are jot the best at logical thinking

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        73 months ago

        if the animal enjoys the food and it has all the nutrition the animal needs then how is it torture?.

        Do you also rant at people who keep their cats inside against their will?

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          73 months ago

          You keep making this logical jump that a cat would enjoy eating shitty food with supplements. They would not. A cat would enjoy some chicken.

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                  Tldr: animals will die, either by eating them or by preventing them to breed (which is even sadder). The entire vegan ideology makes no sense and it works only in a world with infinite resources — certain not ours

                  Yes, because vegan is outright stupid. There is a balance to everything and animals (humans included) eating other animals/plants is perfectly normal and shouldn’t be frown upon.

                  What do you think would happen if animals didn’t eat other animals? Or plants? Someone would have to kill them or make them not reproduce anyway — which is exactly what happens with cats — to compensate overpopulation which is a problem (one we experience right now, why do you think most of the people in this world live in shitty conditions? Or are poor as fuck?) humanity is struggling with and other species like cats. Vegans is just bored people thinking they know better and try to make their own little world without thinking it’s not sustainable and it doesn’t even make sense.

                  Unnecessary edit: I don’t even eat that much meat and I wouldn’t really care if I stopped (I did for a while cause it was too expensive and not worth it) and the conditions animals are breed are completely fucked up, sad and unnatural (think of dog, cat, chicken, cow breeding) but that doesn’t mean that eating meat is wrong and should be replaced by some lab shit (for the aforementioned balance thing reason).

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                    13 months ago

                    If you lived on an island where there was plentiful nutritious food that did not cause suffering, where there were health benefits to eating the vegetable options and where there were vegetable options that tasted similar to meat, would you still continue to eat meat?

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                  They won’t enjoy it. We’ll do a fucking experiment, link whatever product you’re talking about. I have three cats, I’ll put a cockroach in a bowl, your soggy biscuit in another, and a piece of chicken in the third. Which will they go for?

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                    23 months ago

                    But if the vegan cat biscuits are enjoyed by a cat and are nutritious, then would you have any issues with it?

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                12 months ago

                Gish gallop is a series of untrue statements said in rapid fire that the other person does not have time to refute.

                you don’t understand the word.

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          12 months ago

          I hope the RSPCA, ASPCA, Whatever your countries local equivalent is looks into you with that sort of mindset

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            12 months ago

            if the animal has nutritious food and enjoys the food then the RSPCA would be fine.

            the RSPCA published the following information:

            it is possible to develop a plant-based diet for cats, these need to be carefully formulated to meet the unique nutritional requirements of the cat and be appropriately supplemented with essential nutrients

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      223 months ago

      I don’t think palatable nutritional vegan cat food exists, at least none with any empirical evidence its safe for cats long-term.

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          213 months ago

          I would encourage people contemplating it’s use to instead get any of the many herbivore companions instead of trying to make the square peg fit in the round hole.

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            63 months ago

            but I’m asking a simple question: if the cat enjoys the food, and it has all the nutrition the cat requires for a healthy life, would you have any objection?

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              103 months ago

              If it actually enjoyed it, sure. But I believe it would be a substantial lowering of their quality of life. Seeing the difference between how happy my cats are with their normal food vs wet cat food vs churu treats, it’s plain as day they have preferences. While they can survive with proper nutrients, they won’t have as fulfilling a life by limiting their food source in such a manner.

              I won’t talk about what’s natural since my cats aren’t catching any salmon or taking down a cow on their own, but I’m not getting a pet just to enforce a restrictive diet on them.

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                53 months ago

                So as long as the cat is happy eating the food and has nutrition it’s really not a problem.

                I’m not a vet or a scientist. but these issues are easy to solve.

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                  113 months ago

                  You are certainly neither. If it was easy to solve, it would already be done. I believe it’s feasable with today’s techniques with imitation meat but at a huge cost.

                  The reality is that most pet food utilizes what would otherwise become food waste. It may be difficult to replace it in a way that isn’t a net negative.

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              12 months ago

              Yes I do, only in online comments you can’t speak while another person is talking unless it’s a livestream chat

              The online comment version of basically responding over and over again to eventually tire the other person out

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                12 months ago

                talking to tire someone out is not Gish gallop.

                So you don’t understand the term.

                here:

                The Gish gallop (/ˈɡɪʃ ˈɡæləp/) is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by presenting an excessive number of arguments, with no regard for their accuracy or strength, with a rapidity that makes it impossible for the opponent to address them in the time available.