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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not totally food related, but... vegetarians/vegans who have cats and dogs are total hypocrites.[/quote]

I've actually thought a lot about this - and wrote a novel that takes this on, too (published by a real publisher and everything) - and nuh huh. It's complicated sure but not hypocritical.[/quote]

Can you share more about this line of thinking? — vegetarian without pets [/quote]

Hi - It's basically getting comfortable with some amount of cruelty in cases where it is necessary for life, and trying to minimize how much harm and cruelty you cause.

While you can choose for yourself not to eat animal products, and still be healthy and well, your cat and to some extent your dog have to eat meat in order to survive. They are obligate carnivores. So you aren't taking on voluntary cruelty by feeding them, the way you are if you eat meat yourself. You can try to reduce the amount of cruelty involved in feeding your pets by feeding them kibble made from byproducts - basically, most pet food, made of meat parts that would go to waste were they not being fed to pets. Or by buying a super luxury certified humane pet food.

You not having a cat wouldn't make that cat cease to exist, and the cat would be eating meat with or without you, essentially. You aren't contributing to more harm by feeding your cat. And you can take measures to try to reduce that harm as a thoughtful consumer.

The alternative is that you kill all the cats and dogs and all other meat eating animals and only allow the vegetarian animals to survive, and that's not a very good system either. Also even the vegetarian animals cause some harm - they step on bugs; they poop in water where fish live, etc. All life involves some harm, the best we can do is to thoughtfully minimize how we participate in that harm.

AMA[/quote]

Oh, okay. Thanks for explaining. This is about feeding your pets meat, or not. If I had a pet, of course  I would feed it meat because that is what they eat. But as a vegetarian, I wouldn’t make it or anything. I’d buy it and feed them that way. [/quote]

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