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BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, ITT apparently a lemmy user invention. You can feed your cat a “vegan diet”, you will just have to feed them a god level amount of artificial supplements like taurine, arachidonic acid, EPA and DHA omega 3, vitamin A, etc. It will also increase their risk of urinary tract disease due to alkaline. But I’m just pulling these terms out of my ass, since I’m a lemmy user.

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  • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Frankly, you may as well be pulling all that out of your ass since the information you just provided is as good as useless without any reliable sources backing it up (and don’t bother providing any, I’m not here to educate myself on cat diet requirements).

    I’m just calling out the hypocrisy in this whole controversy. People do a quick Google search, read “obligate carnivore” in the title of some document and act as if they’ve got a college degree on the topic.

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    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s ok, you only need to question the information you disagree with as made up, everything you want to hear is obviously implicitly true. Kudos on asking for evidence while saying you don’t really care for it in the same statement.

      It’s true, I’ve now changed my LinkedIn profile to that of a cat veterinarian.

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      • BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Whether or not a cat can thrive on a vegan diet is irrelevant to me as I don’t own a cat nor do I advise people on how to feed their cats. However, I do have a bias (as we all do) that tells me there is likely more nuance (which you did allude to in your original reply) than the general absolutist sentiment against the idea.

        That bias is informed by half-a-lifetime of experience maintaining a loosely plant-based diet myself and witnessing first-hand the fierce compulsion people have to push their uneducated opinions at the mere mention of a plant-based diet. In my experience, there are few other things that can so reliably stir people into a vitriolic frenzy than the suggestion of a plant-based diet.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    While we’re philosophising, is the concept of pet ownership at all vegan? I mean, if milking a cow is rape and eating it is murder, owning a dog (et cetera) is forcible detainment (or rather false imprisonment, unless the dog was convicted in a court of law by a jury of it’s peers) of an animal that deserves autonomy just the same. Dog can’t consent to being owned, but if it understood the concepts of ownership and autonomy I have my bet placed on what it’d say on this matter…

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      unless the dog was convicted in a court of law by a jury of its peers

      Give me that movie now, please!

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  • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are, many turtles/tortoises are herbivorous. Also rabbits, rodents, and a few lizards.

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    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      gasp

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s fun to find people who are trying to make ethical personal life choices and start screaming “Murderer! How could you do that to your pets?! Are you stupid? Are you brainwashed by the vegan lies?! Your beloved animal friend is going to DIE IN SCREAMING AGONY!”

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  • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure I find it fun when they pay somebody to have their food scream in agony before they feast on their flesh.

    But at least they are trying to protect hypothetical cats.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You mean vegans don’t like it when people treat them with self-righteous judgement?

    How about that.

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