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lawrence @lemmy.world

2y ago

Animals

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Why would a cat of all animals be confused about which ones to eat? They are obligate carnivores.
- Yeah, they totally get it. We’d eat them if we were hungry enough, same as they’d eat us. This doesn’t conflict with our feelings of love and companionship. We’re all animals here
  
  We'd eat them if we were hungry enough
  They'd eat us if we were small enough.
  And the house cat has such a strong prey drive they'd likely do it for fun. I suspect when Mr. Rorschach bites on my hand he's testing the flavor.
- Cats are prey to some larger animals, and considering that many humans have portable machines that can instantly kill almost any living mammal, their concern about our diet is probably valid
- They literally kill for no other reason than amusement.
  https://theoatmeal.com/comics/cats_actually_kill
- To paraphrase the Coen Brothers:
  It is a fool that looks for logic in the comics of the preachy vegans
  
  How do you get "go vegan" out of this?!

Ah yes, my cat is so confused she brings me her recommendations to my step door.
- Help stepdoor, I am stuck.
  
  You’re not my real door.

as a cat owner, I can promise you that cats wouldn't be the confused ones

- Read an account of a guy lost at sea, after a while fish eyes and liver were delicacies where mere weeks before he was repulsed by the idea... When the brain decides "ok I'm taking over to keep us alive" you will not only eat things that you normally wouldn't - you'll enjoy doing it too.

I don't think it's arbitrary. I think people eat the ones that are tasty...

I'm pretty sure it's only common to not eat cats and dogs and small birds for no other reason than because they taste bad/don't provide much food while also providing other services we find more valuable than they would have as food. Even if that service is companionship. Cats curb pests. Dogs help do all sorts of things. Even birds have uses other than simply pets.
- Carnivores generally aren’t good to eat. That definitely plays a part.
  
  Bear meat is awful - greasy and gamey.

How to trigger a vegan with only two words:
Nature cycle.
I mean, its kinda funny at how folks believe that we are an evolution of an animal unable to judge and dream to (suddenly) deny our (natural) purpose towards other animals.
- No vegan is triggered by this argument. It is simply the naturalistic fallacy.

Cats and dogs both eat meat
Wild animals hunt and herbivores occasionally eat meat
So no animals wouldn't think this as they eat meat the same as us and wouldn't care at all about eating meat
So I don't get what this is trying to say at all
Edit: also forgot to add that some animals are cannibals for example chickens
- Cats and dogs have no metacognition. They can barely recognize themselves in the mirror. We do. We have the ability to think about our actions, assign them moral value and better ourselves. That ability is completely wasted if you hold yourself to the same standard as a dog or cat. Is it ok to sniff random people's buttholes because dogs do it? To eat your own children because some wild animals do it?
  
  Human beings evolved to eat plants and meat and no you can't get everything from plants as some nutrients in plants are not digestible and don't get absorbed compared to nutrients from meat
  Look if you want to be personally vеgаn indent mind and don't have anything against you for it but when you or other vеgаns attack people who choose to not be vеgаn or have a vegetarian diet then that becomes a problem because you step into the territory of bullying and harassment of others

I love my basil plant and take care of it, but one day I'll come along and definitely eat it
- Plants are not sentient
  
  Just because there is no indication of their suffering doesn't mean they don't suffer.
  
  This post isn't about the ability to feel pain or sentence, it's about the paradox of people eating something they claim to feel compassion for. I can feel compassion for both animals and plants but will still eat them
  
  They aren't but they're not far off... Trees communicate with each other through fungus in their roots, if one is being attacked it let's the others know, I can't remember what evasive action the others take but still...

Doesn't seem too arbitrary at all.
- And some cultures eat dog, and others worship cows.
  Why is your culture correct?
- Rabbit should be right of horse. Goat and sheep the most right; there is no culture nor religion that bans their consumption. They are that important to human survival.
- Eh, horse meat isn't that bad
  
  Neither is rabbit.
- There's another one like this where there's a line to the right of the duck and the text indicates it's " when I want to nail that hot vegan"
  
  Priorities!

I always find it funny that vegans seem to completely ignore fish, they only ever have a pickle with mammals and some birds
- That's pescatarian

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