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littlelilinlover:

grayeyes-brightskies: littlelilinlover: grayeyes-brightskies: I sincerely hope that if you believe cats can survive off vegan diets that you never have cats. I’m pretty certain given enough cautious research we will one day be able to have healthy cats that are on vegan diets. That day is not today. We can do that with dogs, though, already. Just not quite with cats yet. Why is it even fucking necessary though?! It’s not. Have you seen that article about the couple that tried giving their kitten a vegan diet?! It nearly DIED. Cats and dogs are carnivores, omnivores if you want to get all “But they can eat grains, dog food isn’t just meat” BUT THEY ARE NATURAL HUNTERS. IT IS THEIR NATURAL INSTINCT TO HUNT. IF YOUR CAT IS AN OUTDOOR CAT IT IS LIKELY GOING TO GO OUT AND HUNT MICE AND *GASP* EAT THE MEAT. You wouldn’t give a fucking tiger a head of cabbage or a wolf a bunch of carrots. Seriously this is ridiculous and I’m not arguing it further. You are very basic and uneducated. Perhaps it’s necessary because we live in a dying world and some of the principle industries causing that death are meat and dairy, and the more we can wean our entire society off of meat and dairy, the better. Those industries cause far more environmental toxins than automobiles or other vehicles. And just because one couple tried to feed their cat a vegan diet and failed doesn’t mean it’s not possible. There could have been many problems with the specific diet. You do realize the wide variety of things that can be in a vegan diet, do you not? Stop being frustrated because some people want to save the world and you want to be able to sit back and enjoy your meat and dairy while the entire world goes to shit.

Feeding carnivorous animals a diet that their body has not evolved to eat is disgusting and self-serving and absolutely morally wrong.

You want to wean society off of meat and dairy? Good for you. Leave the carnivorous pets out of it. Next you’re going to be saying we should teach snakes to eat tofu mice and lizards and turtles to eat soy mealworms and crickets. It’s ridiculous. Denying an animal the very food its body needs in order to survive and thrive is downright evil.

It’s arguments like the ones you made that show that people like you don’t actually care about the animals - you care about your ideology. That is a dangerous thing. It distances you from the actual matters at hand and blinds you to the mistakes you make.

You look down on people who help one group of animals while eating another, but you’re worse. You will actually advocate giving animals diets that their bodies cannot process, diets full of carbs that cause sugar problems and diabetes, weight gain, loss of nutrition, intestinal irritation and IBD, allergies, kidney stones and failure, urinary tract infections and bladder stones, a whole gamut of problems that are a direct result of a diet that is not suitable for the animal, while citing ‘saving the animals of the world’ as your reasoning.

No. You are wrong. Because when you take in an animal you make an unspoken pledge to feed it and care for it to the best of your abilities. When you know your animal is a carnivore, you feed it like one. When you know your animal is an herbivore, you feed it like one. When you know your animal is an omnivore, you feed it like one.

If you are so insistent on making cats and other carnivorous pets eat a vegan diet, I have an offer for you. Design a diet of sawdust and oil that is supplemented with vitamins and minerals and all that good stuff people need, and have people survive on it. I don’t mean one or two, but hundreds of thousands. Have people survive on supplemented sawdust and oil for oh about five decades. If that works without resulting in major health complications and deaths, then we can talk about vegan diets for carnivores. Because that is what you’re asking society to do - to willingly and knowingly put animals on heavily supplemented diets their bodies cannot sustain themselves on and hope for the best in the long run.