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DPRKunicorn

Hey Vegans who have a dog/cat: Would you personally kill a cow to feed your dog or your cat ?

I am vegetarian who eats only locally produced dairy and eggs ( there's hypocrisy on my side, granted).

Yet i find it unsettling that some vegans think that its OK to keep carnivorous animals. Just as meat, pets aren't necessary to survive. Some people like rescuers or farmers will need dogs, but the average person shouldn't just buy/save a dog from euthanasia just to cuddle with - that's my opinion. By cuddling with one's darling one kills hundreds of livestock.

Would he/she be capable of personally killing these animals just to cuddle with her cutiepie sweatheart Mr. Gingles or Fido ?

I certainly wouldn't.

In my opinion stray cats ,dogs and unneeded pups/kittens should be euthanized. It would cause less harm to livestock and would lower the agricultural output needed to sustain human civilization. Hence it would save some acres of a rain forest. Biology dictates that there will always be some evil. Yet this is in my opinion the best way to produce the least evil. If you are feeding dogs or cats only with vegetables go to hell ! They may survive... but they will survive just like if a Finnish person on a vitamin D poor nutrition... with some severe deformities.

Posted Jan 30, 2019, 6:26 PM UTC · edited

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BarackHuseinObama420•

Need to check what block you on Vato. This ain’t ask reddit.

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sebdel18•

Dogs and cats can't make that choice, it's not wrong for them to eat delicious animals because they don't know any better. Only humans as superior beings can come to the conclussion that eating animals is wrong and deciding to not eat them but it's fine to feed your animals what they're suppose to eat.

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DPRKunicornOP•

People can make the choice not to have them if they dont need them thats the point. And vegans should stick to principles.

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HumanDrawer•

Yeah, but there's no need to force your beliefs on an animal that doesn't know any better

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DPRKunicornOP•

But if you believe that carnivorous animals cant make the choice you force your belief upon lifestock that it should die for your pets.

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HumanDrawer•

So since we can't save all animals, we should kill all animals? And dogs are carnivorous animals, they eat meat, it's in their DNA. If a lion eats a gazelle in order to survive, it's not that the gazelle deserves to die for the lion, it's just that that's what it takes to survive. Buying meat for your dog is simply shortening the process.

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DragonFuhrer•

This is unpopular opinion, not ask reddit. Change the title and try again.

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DPRKunicornOP•

have you ever heard of rhetorical questions ?

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[deleted]•

👉🤛

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some_zounderkite•

Dogs can survive well on a vegetarian diet if you do it right and spend time making a good diet for them, cats however can't.

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DPRKunicornOP•

Do you have peer-reviewed papers to prove this? Otherwise i wont believe you.

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GGHard•

Rain Forests aren't solely destroyed to create gazing lands for agricultural purposes...

Lumber, Mining, and Food Oil base products (such as Palm Oil) are the primary reasons.

Basically, Lumber is used for human development you cannot argue that steel and stone will replace Wood as construction materials considering that Wood is a much cheaper material to construct houses upon

Mining is funded by Earth metals and even Gemstones, if any so therefore, In order to supply steel and concrete to offset Wood based construction, Rain Forests are razed and mined for those materials. Also Diamonds and Precious Metals are used in jewelry and electronics (gold)

Palm Oil (or the harvest of any tree oils) are another primary excuse to raze rain forests.

Arguing that Humans need to give up on cattle ranching because Humans "selflessly" use the land to raise pointless meats... will then be replaced that Farmers need more land to grow more sustainable crops to supply vegetation demands.

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GuruTheMan•

Fuck out here.

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midsummer-madness•

I don’t think it’s fair for you to call for vegans to euthanize their pets to lessen the agricultural impact of their diet while you’re still a vegetarian. Pretty sure no vegan is going to personally kill a cow to feed their dog but are you going to personally forcibly impregnate a cow then separate it from it’s babies, kill the males for veal production, raise the females to repeat the cycle again so you can eat cheese? We’re all hypocrites, but hypocrites can’t call for the mass euthanasia of all pets in the name of veganism.

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