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Awhile ago I signed a petition to stop the skinning of live animals for fur in China. Now I'm bombarded with mail from PETA, often trying to convince me to turn vegan. I think it's possible for people to be vegetarian and maybe even vegan and still be healthy. But suggesting carnivorous pets should be vegan? Even with supplements, a cat's digestive system was not designed to take plant matter!
I don't know about the claim about the 27 year old border collie...either way I'm not sure that dog was very happy. I'm a little suspicious...
Anyway, should die-hard PETA radicals be even allowed to keep pets? Is feeding your cat a vegan only diet tantamount to animal abuse?
What's next, PETA intervening in the wild, trying to stop tigers from eating meat? Honestly, as a conservation-minded person who has had dogs most of my life, I find this extremist, and imposing our values on your pets, as we do on our children.
Also, do you feel anyone who would feed their dog/cat only vegetables should be allowed to have them as pets? I say no, by the way.
Cats are obligate carnivores and should never, ever be fed a vegan diet. It's pretty doubtful most dogs could thrive on it either. There is something seriously wrong with the people who run PETA, and not just because of that.
personaly i feel trying to feed any dog or cat a vegan diet is abuse...its 100% unnatural for their bodies and would be like forcing a cow to eat lamb...
oh wait we did that and had a mass outbreak of mad cows disese...
if a human wants to be a vegan/vegitarian ect thats their choice...forcing that diet on a carnivore...well, i do think its abuse.
Me thinks some of these PETA people need to watch The Lion King or a real "circle of life" film.
Humans(we be animals) have evolved into OMNIVORES, some animals are Carnivores and some Herbivores, some animals have developed into situational Omnivores but it is NOT a natural diet for them and can cause health problems, this is why most Racoons you see around cities are so fat and lumber around.
EVERYTHING on this planet eats something else, sometimes that something is a plant, sometimes it is another animal.
Maybe someone should tell them about all the little creatures that crawl around them and in their bed and they KILL every time they do laundry or take a shower.
I have a good solution -- feed PETA members to the animals! It's a two birds one stone solution. The animals would be happy to have their meat, and everyone else would be happy to have no PETA.
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I have a good solution -- feed PETA members to the animals! It's a two birds one stone solution. The animals would be happy to have their meat, and everyone else would be happy to have no PETA.
Lol someone on a blog about the subject said the exact same thing.
Look, I love animals; I believe in humane animal farming practices and don't support gratuitous testing on animals. PETA, however, takes the issue of animal rights to the point of absurdity. Animals aren't people who look different; they are animals and have different needs. Some PETA members even view having companion animals as some sort of slavery.
I recall reading some articles about PETA and some of its members a wile back, and it really turned me off to the organization. There was one woman on the board at PETA, who also headed an organization called United Poultry Concerns. She compared Thanksgiving dinner to the Holocaust (or something like that) and had all these chickens running around and crapping all over her house. Not surprisingly, her husband ended up leaving her.
Because of things like that, it's hard to take PETA seriously.
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Look, I love animals; I believe in humane animal farming practices and don't support gratuitous testing on animals. PETA, however, takes the issue of animal rights to the point of absurdity. Animals aren't people who look different; they are animals and have different needs. Some PETA members even view having companion animals as some sort of slavery.
I recall reading some articles about PETA and some of its members a wile back, and it really turned me off to the organization. There was one woman on the board at PETA, who also headed an organization called United Poultry Concerns. She compared Thanksgiving dinner to the Holocaust (or something like that) and had all these chickens running around and crapping all over her house. Not surprisingly, her husband ended up leaving her.
Because of things like that, it's hard to take PETA seriously.
Obviously if not for meat or eggs those chickens wouldn't be here in the first place.
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Honestly, as a conservation-minded person who has had dogs most of my life, I find this extremist, and imposing our values on your pets, as we do on our children.
